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Module 3 - Infant Cognitive Development Flashcards

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Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory: The Sensorimotor Stage

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  • Birth - 2 years old
  • Act & understand the world using sensorimotor or behavioural schemes
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Piaget - Sensorimotor Substages: Birth - 1 Month old

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Reflexive schemes - Newborn reflexes

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Piaget - Sensorimotor Substages: 1 - 4 Months

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Primary circular reactions - Simple motor habits centered around own body

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Piaget - Sensorimotor Substages: 4 - 8 Months

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Secondary circular reactions - Repititon of interesting effects; imitation of familiar behaviours

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Piaget - Sensorimotor Substages: 8 - 12 Months

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Coordination of secondary circular reactions - Intentional, goal-directed behaviour, beginning object permanence

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Piaget - Sensorimotor Substages: 12 - 18 Months

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Tertiary circular reactions - Exploration of object properties through novel actions

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Piaget - Sensorimotor Substages: 18 Months- 2 years

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Mental representation - internal depictions of objects and events; advanved object permanence (invisible displacement)

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Object permanence - Developmental progression

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Under 6 months - no object permanence
8-12 months - search but A-not-B errors (child will search where an object was last found, not where it was moved to)

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Piaget - Critisisms of theory

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  • Underestimated infant abilities
  • Evidence of some conceptual understanding before motor skills
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Informaiton processing Perspecitve

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“Central Executive”
Stimulus Input > Sensory Register > Attention > Short-term Memory Store > Storage . Long-term Memory Store > Response Output

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Sensory Register

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Represents sights and sounds directly and stores them briefly

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Short-Term Memory Store

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Holds limited amount of information that is worked on to facilitate memroy and problem solving

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Long-Term Memory Store

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Stores information permanently

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Central Executive

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  • Conscious part of the mind
  • Coordinate incoming information with information in the system
  • Controls attentions
  • Selects, applies & monitors the effectiveness of stategies
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Cognitive Gains: Infancy to Toddlerhood - Attention

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  • Improves efficiency and ability to focus
  • Less attractions to novelty, imporved systained attention
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Cignitive Gains: Infancy to Toddlerhood - Memory

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  • Longer retentional intervals
  • Development of recall by econd half of first year
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Cignitive Gains: Infancy to Toddlerhood - Categorisation

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  • Gradual shift from perception to conceptual categorisation in toddlerhood
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Sociocultural Theory - Vygotsky

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Knowledge is constructed via;
- Collective dialogues
- Collabrotive learning
- Guided participation, scaffolding
- Imitation

Child is known as “little apprentice”
Emphasised social mediation of cognitive construction

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Zone of Proximal Development

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Performance lelve past independant performance that can be performed with help. Past this, the kevek us too advanced

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Language development: Nativist Approach

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Chomsky - 1957
Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
- Universal grammar is hard-wired
- Maturational unfoldling
- Fine-tuned by experience
Evidence: Universal aspects of early language, uniquely human, specialised area left hemisphere, 6-12 years sensitive period

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Critique of Nativist Approch

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  • Hard to identify universal grammer
  • Slower and more error-prone lenguage acquisition than innate ability would predict
  • Learning is important in language
  • Brain plasticity shows other areas of brain capable of supporting language
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Social Interactionist View

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  • Children cue caregivers to provide necessary language experiences
  • Language acquired via socia interaction (debate whether there are also specialised or innate language abilities)
  • Social comptence & language experience affect language progress
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Infant Directed Speech (IDS)

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Speech altered to be directed at infants. Is usually;
Higher pitched, simple words, sound substitution, short sentences, fluctuating inotation, exahherated gestures.
Gains attention, maintains communication & greater language development

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Early Vocalisations

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Newborn - Reflec cries
2 months - Cooing
6 months - Babbling

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Infant Communication Development
4 months - Turn-taking games, looking at adults 6 months - Babbling initially universal sounds 6 - 9 months - Developing understaning of single words 10 - 11 months - Joint attention 9 - 12 months - Understanding of simple instructions 12 months - pre-verbal gesturing 10-15 months - first words
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Telegraphic Speech
Using a single word to convey a whole idea or whole sentence. Often is a word (+ context, intonation, gesture)
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First words & two-word utterances
18 - 24 months using; Over-extension, under-extension, telegraphic speech, correct word order, associated with improved compliance.
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Also related - Child Temperament
Eg: emotional reactivity diverts children from processing language; quantity & richness & caregiver conversations, referential vs. expressive style
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Personality Emergence : Erikson's Psychosocial theory - Trust vs. Mistrust (0 - 1 year)
Sucessfully resolved by experiencing sympathy and loving care. Trust > Prime adaptive ego quality: hope, minimal fear, confidence to explore wider world, implocations for social and cognitive development Mistrust > Core pathology: withdrawal
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Autonomy Vs Shame & Doubt (1 - 3 years)
- Importance or parental handling of emerging desire for autonomy - Over-controlling & under-controlling by parents both problematic - Criticism & punishment for failed attempts at autonomy > shame & doubt
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Emotional Development: Happiness (6 - 10 weeks)
Social smile develops at 6 - 10 weeks. - Evocative gene-environment correlations - Relation to language & cognitive development - Relation to parent - child relationship
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Emotional Development: Anger (birth)
- Distress shown at birth - Main caregivers can usually recognise different cries for pain, anger or discomfort and respond (relevant to resolving Trust crisis & estabishing secure attachment) - As intentional behaviour increases, so does frustration and anger
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Emotional Development: Fear (9 months)
- Intense stranger anxiety around 9 months - Seperation anxiety from 8 - 9 months, peaks around 15 months
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Emotional Development: Self-conscious emotion (18 - 24 months)
-Developing higher-order feelings that include shame, guilt, embarrassment, envy & pride
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Emotional Development: Self-Development (20 months)
- Visual self-recignisation emerges around 20 months (rogue test) - Recignise self in photos around 2 years - Early foundation in cause-and-effect experiences - Cultural differences
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Emotional Development: Self-Development Outcomes
- Emerges self-consious emotions - Improvements in effortful control, compliance & delay of gratification - Combined with advancing cognitive, language and social skills supports developming empathy
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Emotional Development: Emergence of Self-Regulation
Emotional self-regulation: stategies to self-adjust emotional state to a comfortable level in order to be able to meet goals This is imporant for autonomy, cognitive development and social skills
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Emotional Development: Effortful Control
The capacity to voluntarily suppress a dominant resposne in order to plan and execute a more adaptive response. It utilised executive funtions such as inhibitory control, focusing & shifting attention. Is an iomportant aspect of temperament. Emotional self-regulation relies on this.
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Self-Regulation & Effortful Control are fostered by -
Parenting - Appropriate stimulation - Sensitivity & responsiveness - Shapong socially approved ways of expressing emotions - Cultural differences - Effective management of tantrums
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Self-Regulation & Effortful Control are fostered by -
Cognitive Development (and underlying pre-frontal cortical brain development) - Executive functioning especially control of attention - Lenguage development
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Self-Regulation & Effortful Control are fostered by -
Motor Development
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Emotional Development: Temperament
An individuals behavioural style and characteristic way of emotionally responding. Is foundations for later personality
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The Nine Tempremental Aspects Identifiable at Birth
- Activity level - Intensity of reaction - Rhythmicity - Attention span/ persistence - Distractibility - Thershold responsiveness - Quality of mood - Adaptability - Approach/ withdrawal
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Temperament Types
Easy (40%) - Adjust to new situations quickly, establish routines, generally cheerful and easy to calm Slow-to-warm up (15%) - Inactive, initially unwilling to approach, adapt or be distracted but adusts with time Difficult (10%) - Irregular, reactive, unhappy, hard to distract, slow to adapt Average/mixed (35%)
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Temperament Stability
Relatively stable over time, very few children change radically, but temperament can be changed due to experiences and parenting styles If a child is more difficult, may have harder problems adjusting through early childhood. Its a predictor of later functioning.
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Attachment - The First Relationship
Psychoanalytic theory - Emphasis on feeding Behaviourism - Emphasis on classical conditioning - also focused on feeding Harlow & Harlows work with rhesus monkeys discounted role of feeding
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Attachment Theory - John Bowlby (Influcenced by psychoanalytic Lorenz imprinting)
Ethological Theory - Human attachment is an evolved repsonse that promotes survival. Attachment - active, reciprocal tie that endures acress time and space, leads to desire for contact, distress at seperation Development of internal working model regarding availibility of attachment figures later relationships
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Attachment: Still Face Experiment
Parents under stress or emotionally absent are not mutually responsive to baby
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Development of Attachment
0 - 6 weeks - Pre-attachment, general sociability, indescriminant 6 weeks - 6/8 months - Attachment-in-the-making - 4 months: differential sociability 6/8 -18 months - Clear-cut attachment to primary caregiver Stranger anxiety Seperation anxiety Emergence of secondary attachments
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Attachment classification: Ainsworth's Strange Situation
- All children have developed an attachment by 12 months, and the quailty will differ - Measured by the Strange Situation Test (critical episode is the reaction to the reunion with caregiver, but also look for use of mother as a secure base
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Attachment Types - Type A - Avoidant (15%)
- Minimal interest in caregiver - Minimal distress at seperation - Minimal stranger anxiety - Does not seek out caregiver on reunion
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Attachment Types - Type B - Secure (60%)
- Seeks out caregive if distressed - Seperation anxiety - Joy upon reunion - Caregiver provides secure base for exploration
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Attachment Types - Type C - Anxious or Insecure-Resistant (10%)
- Minimal Exploration - Preoccupied with caregiver - Resists seperation but resistant upon reunion
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Attachment Types - Type D - Disorganised/Disoriented (15%)
- Fright without solution - Associated with maltreatment, residential care, maternal mental illess - Bizarre behaviours - Contradictory, incomplete, stereotypies, stilling, disoriented or apprehensive in presence of parent
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Attachment - Imporant Factors
Opportunity - Risks from early institutional care Up to 6 years, adoptees can secure attachment and some difficulties shown for late adoptees
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Caregiving Quaility
Sensitivity - Accurate identification of infant communication and needs - Positive emotions - Interest and pleasure in infant Interactional Synchrony - Awareness of appropriate level of stimulation
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Attachment: Parenting
Secure - Responsive, positive emotions, tender hadnling, sensitivitiy & synchrony Avoidant - Over-stimulating, intrusive Resistant - Minimal interaction, inconsistent care Disorganised - Dysfunctional caregiving
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Infant Characterstics
Temperament - difficult infants are more likely to develop insecure attachments Heritability virtually 0 - Expereinces of parent-cjild interactions are important Family factors - stress
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