PSY315H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Object Permanence, Joint Attention, Auditory System
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3:17 pm: want to know a little bit about infant memory. If the baby looks for a longer period on a certain side, we know that they know. Cognitive foundations: what cognitions have to be in place for learning, child must understand the physical and social events around them. Domain-general mechanisms of learning and development: ability to learn rules is one of them. Domain general mechanisms: when it comes to language babies are trying to make sense of the statistical patterns. Interacting less with real people: social skill: joint attention two people attend their attention to one thing at around 10- 12 months of age: autistic children have trouble with joint attention o. Joint attention may not be necessary for language development. Some people don"t speak to their infant at all during preverbal ages: more gestures a child uses, the bigger their vocabulary.
