Adam was the younger child I observed; he was around 12-18 months old. He was a very active child and moved around the room very frequently, seeming like he lost focus really quickly while playing. Adam is developmentally he is right where he should be. With motor skills, he is walking and slightly running smoothly, he also has mastered skills like stacking object and can successfully remove his socks and shoes alone. From what I could see he didn’t communicate much verbally with others in the classroom, mainly mumbles to himself as he was playing. I did see that Adam was very cognitively developed, I could see him thinking about things as he was playing with them, such as stacking the bowls. He wasn’t able to get them to fit the first few
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Or more importantly, the extreme importance of experiences the infant is exposed to during this critical period. In the book Fogel describes the critical period as, “What happens to the individual during approximately 4-year period can determine whether the brain grows in a healthy and developmentally appropriate manner, or is compromised in some way”(Fogel pg.168). This is the time where infants are developing new cells, their brain is working hard to become more efficient, and the brain is making more connections through synaptogenesis. Experiences with your child can grow their brain and allow it to adapt to the world around them. Experience expectant and experience dependent are the two ways in which the brain is able to adapt and grow to the events they encounter. Experience expectant is, “Pathways and brain regions already developed at birth, those that prepare the infant for survival”(Fogel Pg.170), this is seen when Callie is hit, and she started crying. Her brain has already taught her that when she is in pain she needs to cry to get the attention she needs to relief the discomfort she is in. Experience dependent is describes as, “Some cells and synapses have developed prenatally whose only purpose is to become ready to learn about a particular individual’s experiences”(Fogel pg. 171), this is additional skills learned over a life time. This can be any skill an individual learns in his or her environment; it is unlike experience expectant because not everyone grows up in the same environment. Some may need to learn how to tend to crops starting at a young age while others may need to learn how to do things in the kitchen. Experience dependent, allows the individual to grow and learn through their environment they are raised
Or more importantly, the extreme importance of experiences the infant is exposed to during this critical period. In the book Fogel describes the critical period as, “What happens to the individual during approximately 4-year period can determine whether the brain grows in a healthy and developmentally appropriate manner, or is compromised in some way”(Fogel pg.168). This is the time where infants are developing new cells, their brain is working hard to become more efficient, and the brain is making more connections through synaptogenesis. Experiences with your child can grow their brain and allow it to adapt to the world around them. Experience expectant and experience dependent are the two ways in which the brain is able to adapt and grow to the events they encounter. Experience expectant is, “Pathways and brain regions already developed at birth, those that prepare the infant for survival”(Fogel Pg.170), this is seen when Callie is hit, and she started crying. Her brain has already taught her that when she is in pain she needs to cry to get the attention she needs to relief the discomfort she is in. Experience dependent is describes as, “Some cells and synapses have developed prenatally whose only purpose is to become ready to learn about a particular individual’s experiences”(Fogel pg. 171), this is additional skills learned over a life time. This can be any skill an individual learns in his or her environment; it is unlike experience expectant because not everyone grows up in the same environment. Some may need to learn how to tend to crops starting at a young age while others may need to learn how to do things in the kitchen. Experience dependent, allows the individual to grow and learn through their environment they are raised