PSYC 1030H Study Guide - Final Guide: Personality Disorder, Intellectual Disability, Cognitive Development

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1030H
• Professor: Brenda Smith- Chant

Document Summary

Babies cry and coo; they respond to emotions and rhythms in voices. Babies begin to recognize key vowel and consonant sounds of their native language. Infants" familiarity with the sound structure of their native language increases and they can distinguish words from the flow of speech. Infants start to name things based on familiar concepts and use symbolic gestures to communicate. Children begin to speak in two and three-word phrases and understand verbs from the context in which they occur. Children rapidly acquire new words, inferring their meaning from the grammatical and social contexts in which they hear them. According to piaget, as children develop, their minds constantly adapt to new situations and experiences. Sometimes they assimilate new information into their existing mental categories. Children must change their mental categories to accommodate their new experiences. From birth to age 2, babies are in the sensorimotor stage.