PSY 2114 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Joint Attention, Fast Mapping, 18 Months

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2114
• Professor: Gustavo Gottret

Document Summary

Hippocampus and amygdala, necessary for storing information, develop by 6 months. Frontal cortex, necessary for retrieval, develops much later. Many 5-month-olds can: distinguish sets of 2 objects from sets of 3 objects, perform very simple addition and subtraction. Learning objectives: describe when infants first hear and make speech sounds, discuss when children start to talk and why. Most children say their first word at about 1 year. They have been: communicating in other ways for some time, understanding at least some of their parents" speech for months. Parents typically respond readily, trying to figure out exactly what their infant is trying to tell them. Parental responses are often a mix of verbal (e. g. , it"s okay ) and non-verbal (e. g. , rocking) behaviour. English: certain sounds rarely go together in a single word (e. g. , sd in english), and thus likely represent the end of one word and the start of another.