ELED 120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Language Processing In The Brain, Baby Talk, Joint Attention
Document Summary
Infants and toddlers: attend, habituate, and remember, are goal-oriented and understand intention, observe and imitate, categorize, sort, classify, and generalize, understand and generate symbols, solve problems and develop schemas. Born ready to learn any of the world"s 6000+ languages. Receptive language during 1st year-listening, processing, distinguishing sounds. Theories about language development: behaviorists emphasize experience with imitation and reinforcement of sounds/words, nativists emphasize innate internal capacity for learning language, interactionists recognize contributions of both experiences and internal capacity. Processes supporting language: joint attention: child and caregiver interact about the same object or event, child-directed speech: baby talk (motherese) invites conversation. Social and emotional development in infants and toddlers. Psychosocial developmental tasks: during infancy: trust v. distrust, during toddlerhood: autonomy v. doubt. Influenced by nature (heredity) and nurture (experiences) Temperament based on baby"s emotionality, sociability, and activity level: examples of differences: gulping milk v. drinking slowly; irritable v. unbothered. Self-regulation: ability to control own thoughts, feelings, behaviors.
