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Chapter 4: Language - Coggle Diagram
Chapter 4: Language
Attention: the ability for the infant to engage, maintain, disengage, and shift focus.
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In the first year, the duration of looking shortens and the rate of shifting attention becomes faster.
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Representational Competence: the ability to extract commonalities from experiences and represent them abstractly or symbolically.
This is seen in an infants anticipation of future events, object permanence, and symbolic play.
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The more words a child hears, the fast the child will learn the language.
At 7 months, a child can "understand" on to two words and can associate them.
At 9-13 months, a child can understand words based on a sound, nonlinguistic and paralinguistic cues, and context.
Memory
Infants with better memory are able to encode, store, consolidate, and retrieve different representations of objects and events.
More specifically, better recognition and recall memory leads to better pairing of words and "referents".
Over time, repeated exposure can begin to form a representation of entities with incoming stimuli. Eventually, the child will be able to retrieve without any representation.
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