Level 1 Shared Attention and Regulation

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Level 1Shared
Attention and Regulation

• Develops between birth to three months
• Organize sights, sounds, and sensations of the
  world
• Ability to share attention with another person
• Expand from co-regulation to self- regulation

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Level 2 Engagement and Relating

• Develops between 4 and 5 months
• Forming attachments and engaging in relationships
  with warmth, trust, and intimacy later staying
  related across a full range of emotions
• Falling in love
• Displays a wide range of emotions with
  significant others including the gleam in the
  eye!

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Level 3Purposeful Emotional Interaction(Two-Way
Communication)

• Develops between 4 and 10 months
• Opening (initiating) and closing (responding)
  circles of communication
• Starts with smiles and gestures
• Reciprocal back forth emotional signaling and
  continuous flow develop
• Expresses desires and needs
• Motor competency (including gestural system)
  develops and intentionality emerges

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Level 4Shared Social Problem Solving

• Develops between 9 and 18 months
• Uses motor planning to solve problems within the
  context of social interactions
• Expands number and complexity of circles of
  communication
• Displays persistent and sustained social
  interactions for longer periods of time
• Develops sense of self, self-esteem and
  independence

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Level 5Creating (Emotional) Ideas

• Develops between 18 and 36 months
• Represent or symbolize her intentions, feelings,
  and ideas in imaginative play and/or language
  using gestures, words, and symbols
• Replicates real life through pretend play of at
  least one idea (scheme)
• Engages in interactive pretend play with
  caregivers and/or peers

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Level 6 Logical Thinking

• Begins to develop at 3 years of age
• Makes logical connections between meaningful
  ideas
• Combines ideas together to tell a story that
  becomes increasing logical and realistic
• Develops ability to distinguish reality and
  fantasy and to make distinctions of time and
  space
• Ability to express feelings instead of acting on
  them impulse control
• Gives reasons behind feelings
• Recreates emotional ideas in play

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Level 7 Multi-Causal and Comparative Thinking

• Develops between 4 and 6 years
• Explores multiple motives, opinions and compares
  and contrasts ideas
• Considers how he would feel in another persons
  shoes
• Predicts what others will do based on their
  affect cues
• Gives reasons for other peoples actions

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Level 8Relativistic or Gray-Area Thinking

• Develops between 6 and 10 years
• Distinguishes varying degrees of different
  feelings for situations or activities
• No longer thinks only in black and white
• Considers different possibilities and
  contingencies
• Expresses varying degrees of feelings when
  comparing peer relationships

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Level 9Self-Reflection or Thinking Using an
Internal Standard

• Develops after 9 years of age
• Reflections introspectively on performance,
  effort, and feelings
• Questions reasons for feeling a certain way and
  contrasts that with usual feelings
• Enables inferences to be made regarding self and
  others and creates new choices and ideas
• Almost always forms and uses her own inner values
  (i.e., ideas about whats right wrong)