Name: Leahanna N. Edwards
Question 1: Potential Benefit Claims
1. Help your baby attain a higher IQ
a. Measuring infant’s intelligence is very difficult (Siegler, DeLoache, & Eisenberg.,2011, p. 307).
b. Other factors can affect IQ like poverty, discrimination on race, and ethnic minorities (Siegler, DeLoache, & Eisenberg.,2011, p. 337).
2. Self Esteem & Confidence
a. Self esteem increases in children by the support and approval from peers like parents, friends, and other people that are involved in their environment difficult (Siegler, DeLoache, & Eisenberg.,2011, p.627).
b. It depends on what culture infants come from. For example, their form, functions, and evaluation of self-esteem may be different(Siegler, DeLoache, & Eisenberg.,2011, p.459 ).
3. Enhance your baby’s memory
a. Infants develop memory using basic processes that includes associating events, recognizing familiar objects, recalling facts and generalizing. Infants also gain memory by encoding different specific features of events and object for representation. In other words, infants memory is more selective because they encode things by giving their attention to something that is relevant to them (Siegler, DeLoache, & …show more content…
The website provided scientific research from the “Baby Signing Research” (http://mybabycantalk.com/information/baby-signing-research/) tab to strongly support that infants start to use their hands to understand language. For example, on the page researchers Acredolo & Goodwyn did a study to prove that young infants’ uses hand movements to represent words that they are unable to say verbally. Even they did a longitudinal study involving eleven month old infants to if they can communicate with sign language before speaking the language. According to results, the children had higher IQ, and parents had lower frustration and higher bond with their them. This is supporting research for parents to know if sign language can work for infants and what benefits come out of
Question 1: Potential Benefit Claims
1. Help your baby attain a higher IQ
a. Measuring infant’s intelligence is very difficult (Siegler, DeLoache, & Eisenberg.,2011, p. 307).
b. Other factors can affect IQ like poverty, discrimination on race, and ethnic minorities (Siegler, DeLoache, & Eisenberg.,2011, p. 337).
2. Self Esteem & Confidence
a. Self esteem increases in children by the support and approval from peers like parents, friends, and other people that are involved in their environment difficult (Siegler, DeLoache, & Eisenberg.,2011, p.627).
b. It depends on what culture infants come from. For example, their form, functions, and evaluation of self-esteem may be different(Siegler, DeLoache, & Eisenberg.,2011, p.459 ).
3. Enhance your baby’s memory
a. Infants develop memory using basic processes that includes associating events, recognizing familiar objects, recalling facts and generalizing. Infants also gain memory by encoding different specific features of events and object for representation. In other words, infants memory is more selective because they encode things by giving their attention to something that is relevant to them (Siegler, DeLoache, & …show more content…
The website provided scientific research from the “Baby Signing Research” (http://mybabycantalk.com/information/baby-signing-research/) tab to strongly support that infants start to use their hands to understand language. For example, on the page researchers Acredolo & Goodwyn did a study to prove that young infants’ uses hand movements to represent words that they are unable to say verbally. Even they did a longitudinal study involving eleven month old infants to if they can communicate with sign language before speaking the language. According to results, the children had higher IQ, and parents had lower frustration and higher bond with their them. This is supporting research for parents to know if sign language can work for infants and what benefits come out of