HDF 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: 18 Months, Object Permanence, Habituation

• School: URI
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HDF 200
• Professor: Hans Saint- Eloi Cadely

Document Summary

Hdf 200 - lecture 8 - infancy: cognitive development. Newborns can cry for an average of 2-3 hours a day. Average length of crying decreases as infant gets older. Infants cry to communicate physical and emotional needs. Basic rhythmic cries (cries and silences. Mad louder and more abrupt than the basic cry. Pain loud initial cry followed by breath holding. Infants can be calmed through holding and swaddling. Cognition develops through motor and reflex action. Infants store more information as they become older. Automatization - activities that require much attention in order to be remembered. Assimilation - using current knowledge to try and understand surroundings. Accommodation - changing current knowledge in order to understand surroundings. Equilibration - balance between one"s interpretations and one"s surroundings. Disequilibration - when new information does not fit with the current scheme. Beginning to learn about surroundings through reflexes. Substage 2: first habits and primary circular reactions (1-4 months)