FRHD 2260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Baby Talk, Habituation, John Bowlby

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2260
• Professor: Susan Chuang

Document Summary

*by 6 months infants should double in weight. Bones are still soft (make sure clothes aren"t restrictive. Gross (big) and fine (small) motor kills. *tracking: smooth eye movement to follow x, not present at birth) Simple reflexes: birth-1 month automatic reflexes i. e. rooting, sucking, grasping. Primary circular reactions: 1-4 months focus on self . Evidence that infants have some cognition, sense of deliberation. Focus on external rather than own body. More exaggerated contrasts with high/low pitch sounds. Exaggerate: speech/body movement, facial expressions big, shaking of heads and hands. Receptive language: hearing and knowing (what a sound means) Turn taking: in the beginning the infant doesn"t know, so parents fill in the gaps. At 4-6 months infant learns to wait. Begins to take initiative like looking at mom and waiting for response for smiling. Rhythm and repetition: same word, phrase repeats.