PSYC 351 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: 18 Months, Cognitive Development, General Idea
10 Dec 2013
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Children"s self-knowledge develops steadily across the childhood years and is interwoven with the development of other cognitive and socialization process: discovery of the self in infancy, the role of perception. Perceptual processes are thought to play an important role in infants" first coming to recognize their separateness. Only weeks after birth, infants can imitate certain adult facial expressions ------>interpretation: children can connect sensory input with motor responses. This means that children of that age have the capability that lays the groundwork for their realizing that they can interact with and affect the world around them. 3 months-->infants perceive that they control their own body movements: experiment showed: babies can detect when their leg movements did not correspond to what they were watching. 6-month olds taught to look for an object located in left. then they are moved so that the object is to their right. 6 month olds continue to look at left.
