PSY210H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Primitive Reflexes, Depth Perception, Charlotte Selver
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Infants are active learners, adapting to experience: cognition in the first two years, early reflexes and body movements used by infants to develop their minds. Also sucking for hunger and for comfort: once adaptation occurs, it sticks it is quite specific too. Stages three and four: secondary circular reaction: the circular reaction is between the baby and something else, making interesting sights last (3rd) 4-8 mos. They also start displaying some universal signs pointing, pushing or reaching up: 10 mos. = babies become more attuned to the goals of others: personal understanding begins to extend to social understanding, object permanence (8 mos. ) Realization that objects or people continue to exist when they are no longer in sight. Experiment: at about 8 mos. , they will search for the toy hidden under a cloth but not if they have to wait for a few seconds.
