Unit 2 Chapter 3, Section 1

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Unit 2Chapter 3, Section 1

• Physical, Perceptual, and Language Development

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Essential Question

• Will every baby grow and mature at the same rate?

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Evian Babies

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vXQcVllWpwGs
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v0ZjInxF5Omc
• Ninja Baby

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Developmental Psychology

• Specialized study of how an individuals
  physical, social, emotional, moral, and
  intellectual development occur in sequential
  interrelated stages throughout the life cycle.
• Essential, how do babies grow

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Studies of Developmental Psychologists

1. Continuity vs. stages of development
2. Stability vs. change
3. Nature vs. Nurture

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Nature vs. Nurture Question

• How much of development is the result of
  inheritance (heredity), and how much is the
  result of what we have learned?

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Newborns Capacities

• Have the ability at birth to see, hear, smell,
  and respond to their environment
• Birth puts staggering demand on a babys capacity
  to adapt and survive

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Baby Scared

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vtIokkz4AKSo
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vFqjNzFPnPew
• Baby sneeze fart

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Capacities cont.

• Capable of reflexes- inherited, automatic,
  coordinated movement patterns
• Grasping reflex- when a baby grabs a hold of
  something
• Rooting reflex- baby turns his mouth toward the
  area being touched

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What they can do?

• Psychologist take advantage of what babies can
  do
• Suck
• Turn their head
• Look at things
• Cry
• Smile
• Show signs of surprise or fright

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Lilys Disneyland Surprise

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vOOpOhlGiRTM
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v_OBlgSz8sSM
• Charlie Bit my finger

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Physical Development

• Average Weight at birth 7.3 pounds (largest 19.2
  pounds)
• 95 of infants weigh between 5.5 and 10 pounds
  and are 18 to 22 inches long

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Maturation

• The internally programmed growth of a child
• Lift head 3 months
• Smile 4 months
• Grasp objects 5 to 6 months
• Crawling 8 to 10 months
• Walking 11 to 15 months

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Maturation vs. Learning

• Maturation just as important as learning
  (relatively permanent change in behavior that
  occurs as a result of experience)
• Parents should wait for their children to
  develop, not try to push or force them when they
  are not ready

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Dance Moves that rock

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vazhgVB5uXlo

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Maturation Cont.

• Maturational plans inside each child is unique
• Each infant has his/her own temperament (an
  individuals style in responding emotionally to
  situations)

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Perceptual Development

• Newborns have mature perception skills
• Prefer looking at human faces and benefit greatly
  from being touched by parents

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Angry Baby

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v-bRjnUqzseU
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vpyZavKXbPek
• Ninja Baby

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Development of Language

• Language and thought are closely intertwined
• A child begins to think, to represent things to
  himself, before he is able to speak

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How to learn a Language

1. One must learn the signsby hand or by mouth
2. Learn meaning of signs
3. Learn grammar

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Children and Foreign Languages

• Children learn language from their family
  (Chinese, Japanese, English)
• Speak what is native to the family

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Language

• Second year- first real words usually refer to
  things they can see or touch
• Have vocabulary of 500 to 1,000 words
• From 18 months to 5 years, learn approx. 5 to 10
  words a day
• Average for an adult 17,000 (college graduate)

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Language Cont

• Children use telegraphic speech- verbal utterance
  in which words are left out, but the meaning is
  usually clear
• Ex Where my Apple?
• Ex Daddy goed (went) yesterday.