The seventh edition of Laura E. Berk’s textbook, Infants, Children, and Adolescents, defines intermodal stimulation as, “Perception that combines information from more than one modality, or sensory system, resulting in an integrated whole” (Berk, 2012). In other words, it is the perception that a person has based on the senses that they used to combine information about a certain objects. Intermodal perception is vital for infant’s developing understanding of their physical and social worlds because knowing what sounds certain objects make, what certain smells objects have, and what certain feel objects have help infants predict what is going to happen in their environment. Below are a few examples that will help demonstrate how vital it is
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Take for example, the rattle mentioned earlier, younger babies will just hold it in their hand and maybe move it a little bit, but will not understand its purpose. Until the child experiments more with his or her senses, he or she will not realize that by shaking the rattle a sound will be produced. When this happens, the baby is able to physically move the rattle, see the rattle move, and associate the sound of the rattle to the moving of his or her hand. After exploring the toy in more detail, the child may even begin to notice that the faster he or she moves his or her hand, the louder the sound the rattle will …show more content…
Even though their vision is poor due to underdeveloped retinas, they can still see outlines of people’s faces (Berk, 2012). At a certain point in a baby’s intermodal development, they will realize that when the lips on a person move that sound is being produced. It is extremely vital to an infant’s social development that they recognize that each person has a different face and voice. Also, by watching the faces of others and connecting that with the pitch of the person’s voice, a child is able learning how to respond to certain facial expressions and tones. This will dramatically affect how they interact in social situations once they are
Take for example, the rattle mentioned earlier, younger babies will just hold it in their hand and maybe move it a little bit, but will not understand its purpose. Until the child experiments more with his or her senses, he or she will not realize that by shaking the rattle a sound will be produced. When this happens, the baby is able to physically move the rattle, see the rattle move, and associate the sound of the rattle to the moving of his or her hand. After exploring the toy in more detail, the child may even begin to notice that the faster he or she moves his or her hand, the louder the sound the rattle will …show more content…
Even though their vision is poor due to underdeveloped retinas, they can still see outlines of people’s faces (Berk, 2012). At a certain point in a baby’s intermodal development, they will realize that when the lips on a person move that sound is being produced. It is extremely vital to an infant’s social development that they recognize that each person has a different face and voice. Also, by watching the faces of others and connecting that with the pitch of the person’s voice, a child is able learning how to respond to certain facial expressions and tones. This will dramatically affect how they interact in social situations once they are