FRHD 2260 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Breast Milk, Shoe, Attachment Theory
7 Mar 2014
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Chapter 6: grasping the world: infants at 3 to 6 months. Enjoy contrasting patterns, bright colours, faces: tracking ability visual connections are not present in the brain at birth, they stabilize by 6 months. Babies will repeat actions many times which shows they have some sense of deliberation and an ability to decide to do something, even if they cannot carry it out successfully. The baby"s actions will be concerned with the external environment rather than with her own body. When something happens by chance, baby will repeat the action that brought about the result shows baby has some basic understanding of cause and effect and that objects are separate from her. Recognition that even the youngest infant can signal her needs and wishes. Accurate reading and interpretation of a baby"s cues and signals. Adult"s response contingent on the baby"s signals. Limited at the end of this stage, context-dependent: expressive language: utterance of meaningful sounds, words, phrases, and sentences.
