Cognitive Development of an Infant Piagets Sensorimotor Stages

Cognitive Development of an Infant

Piaget’s Sensorimotor Stages • Lasts from birth to about age 2 • Babies learn through their senses and their own actions. • Sensory stimulation is vital to brain development and fostering intellectual activity. • Babies put things in their mouths to learn through their senses.

Piaget’s Sensorimotor Stages • • • Acts intentionally to produce results Begins to solve problems Imitates others Explores and experiments Begins imaginative thinking

Object Permanence • Knowing that an object still exists even when it is out of sight. • Show video clips of examples

Language Development • • • Begins with crying Then cooing Babbling Single words Putting a few words together

Parentese • The intentionally oversimplified nonstandard musical manner of speech. • Imitative of young children learning to talk • Used by adults in talking to toddlers and infants. • Often accompanied by exaggerated facial expressions.

How to Speak Parentese • Parentese video clip • How to speak Parentese video clip

Why Speak Parentese? • Helps parents and caregivers connect to their babies • Infants actually prefer parentese to adult conversations. They will turn their head to hear it. • Babies not only enjoy the high-pitched sounds, they also like watching our faces as we talk to them.

Why Speak Parentese? • Baby talk uses sounds and nonsense words • Try and read this sentence: – “oo es da cootest witto baby in da wold” • Parentese uses actual words, in short and simple sentences, often repeated over and over again

Why Speak Parentese? • The elongated vowels, high pitch, exaggerated facial expressions and short, simple sentences actually help infants learn language. • Their brains are “mapping” the sounds they are hearing, and talking in a way that gets their attention helps them learn to speak and understand language.

Why Speak Parentese? • We tend to pronounce words precisely when we talk to babies – Pulling out the vowel sounds and clearly voicing consonants – In marked contrast to the hurried way we speak to other adults.

Importance of Literacy • Begin reading to a child as soon as they are born and make it part of the daily routine. • Children should be read to at least 20 minutes a day. • Interact with the child while you are reading to them.

Importance of Literacy • Reading together builds a strong parent and child relationship. • Children’s books do not have to be expensive to be educational. • Reading to a child is one of the best ways to help language development and reading readiness.

Importance of Literacy • Encourage an interest in books and reading by choosing books that appeal to children and their ages. Nursery Rhymes enhance a child’s cognitive skills. • Books help a child learn to separate fact from fantasy. • It is one of the best ways to help build independence and self-esteem.

Importance of Literacy • Books are a great way to understand discuss real life experiences (death, divorce, fears, etc. ) • Dyslexia is a learning disability in which the child uses non-traditional methods to learn to read.

Infants and Television • What is the latest research about television and infants? • Your job is to find out. • Hand out Infant TV assignment. • Due next class period.