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Extremely rapid developmental change in these 4 areas during the first two years of life
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Perception
Motor Development Learning Cognition All 4 domains are particularly intertwined in this period |
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Infants learn about the environment through what?
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active touch
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What are the patterns/stages of exploration from birth through four months of age?
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Oral exploration dominates for the first few months
Around 4 months of age, infants gain greater control over their hand and arm movements, and manual exploration gradually takes precedence over oral exploration |
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When babies explore months after four months of age how do they treat objects with different characteristics? (Rough vs. smooth, hard vs. soft, etc)
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Tend to rub textured objects and bang rigid ones, rotating, transferring from hand-to-hand, etc.
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Sensation
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Refers to the processing of basic information from the external world by the sensory receptors in the sense organs and brain
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Perception
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The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information about the objects, events, and spatial layout of our surrounding world
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What did William James believe about babies?
How do modern researchers feel about it? |
William James believed the world of the newborn to be a “big blooming, buzzing confusion”
modern researchers do not agree |
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When was the preferential looking technique developed? Who designed it?
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Preferential looking technique by Robert Fantz 1961
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