My Development
Jean Piaget views children as busy and motivated explorers whose thinking develops as they act directly on the environment. The first stage of Piaget's Cognitive-developmental theory is the sensorimotor stage. Piaget believes that children in infancy and toddlerhood think with their eyes, ears, hands, and other sensorimoter equipment. Infants and toddlers cannot carry out many activities in their head.
Through my mother's biography of myself at a young age, I elicited many behaviors of children in the senorimotor stage when I was an infant and toddler. I likely showed the capacity to anticipate events, actively search for hidden objects, mastered the A-B object search, engaged in make-believe play, and treated pictures, and video images symbolically.
Because my development was normal in infancy and toddlerhood I can assume that with age, I was able to attend to more aspects of the environment and take information in more quickly. I was likely capable of recognition memory and by the second half of the first year I was likely able to engage in recall.
Recognition: noticing when a stimulus is identical or similar to one precious experience
Recall: Remembering something that is not present such as finding hidden objects.
Most information-processing researchers assume that we hold information in three parts of the mental system for processing: the sensory register, the short-term memory, and the long-term memory store. We then use mental strategies to operate on and transform it, increase chances that we will retain information, use if efficiently, and think flexibly, adapting the information to change circumstances
(Berk, 2013, p. 126).
Information Processing
Cognitive Development
Language Development
My Development
By the second half of the first year. infants make dramatic progress in distinguishing the basic sounds of their language and in segmenting the flow of speech into word and phrase units. At around 2 months old, babies begin to make vowel sounds called cooing and then begin babbling at 6 months. They also start to comprehend some works and around 12 months of age say their first word
(Berk, 2013, p. 136).
Although I don't know when I said my first word, because my development was "normal", I would assume it was around when I turned 1. My first word, other than mama and dada was "Josh", the name of my neighbors dog.
Picture: Below is a picture of my vocabulary that my mother wrote down for me at 18 months.
My Development
Infancy & Toddlerhood
