2. Wiring of the Brain
• Voluntary gross motor movements
– 2 months
• Voluntary fine motor movements
– 2-3 months
• Vision
– 3 months
– Binocular vision
• How far away an object is
– Thinking and memory
• 6 months until 10 years
3. Infants learn by
• Practicing
• Beginning to control
• Solving problems
• imitating
4. Language
• 1st 6 months- small difference in
sounds
• Pruning begins at 6 months
– Babies only notice major differences in
sound from adults
• They ignore radio and TV
– 12 months auditory map is complete
5. Language continued…
• How babies communicate
– Cry
– Coo – 6-8 weeks
– Babble 4-5 months
– Passive vocabulary
• Words people understand, but can’t say
• Babies have a large passive vocabulary
6. Language continued…
• Active vocabulary
– Words people understand and speak
– Babies begin speaking at 9 months
– By 1 year most have a 3 word vocabulary
7. Concept
• Idea formed by combining what is
known about a person, object, place,
quality, or event
8. Object Constancy
• Knowing that objects remain the
same even if they appear different
9. Object Concept
• World of objects, people and events
are separate from one’s interactions
with them
10. Concept continued….
• Object Identity
– Object stays the same from one time to the
next
• Object permanence
– People, objects, and places still exist even
when they are no longer seen, felt, or heard
• Depth Perception
– How far away something is
