PSYCH-UA 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Cognitive Development, Twin, Menarche
8 Jan 2017
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Infancy - early childhood newborn is keenly sensitive to her own needs but largely oblivious to the needs of others. Newborn also has no clue what it means to be a friend or how to behave di erently at a birthday party than when sitting in church. But they master this in a few short years. Sensorimotor, cognitive, and socioemotional are all interrelated with one other; functioning as a social being depends on her cognition and on her emerging theory of mind. Cognitive development is often spurred by learning from others--and so social interactions, which depend on newly developing social skills, can foster intellectual growth. Infants seem predisposed to looking at human faces and tend to imitate faces. Investigators sat face to face with infants less than 21 days old and made faces at them. Careful scrutiny of the infants" faces showed that when the investigators stuck out their tongues, the infant"s did too.
