Communication Theories : Comm 4910 Final Report

It is believed that babies develop language when they are in the utero and it continues throughout their lifetime. By twelve weeks old, babies may register the sounds they can hear and at the same time make basic visual, auditory and tactile mind maps (Karen Kearns, 2013, P.105). This allows the infant to turn towards any familiar sounds and noises. Babies begin to communicate with people around them quite quickly. By two months old, babies begin to make ‘cooing’ and other noises; this indicates the phonological component of language development. By six to nine months babies begin to experience with a mixture of sounds, and often you will hear a baby babbling. Babbling development is similar across many different languages and even hearing impaired babies will go through this stage. They may copy the sounds they are introduced too or beginning to recognize familiar

Babies from the age of 0-5 months react to loud sounds and turn their heads towards where the sound is coming from for example a toy or voice. Babies this age watch your face when you speak and make noises when they here pleasurable or displeasurable sounds such and laughing ,crying and

Language Development: Baby will make a lot of noises, often happy sounds and when they are distressed and upset they need to hear a familiar sound such as a mums voice.

Babies prefer the sound of humans interacting to other sounds and from this, they quickly learn to recognise and identify their mother’s voice. Babies form their first relationship through emotional attachments with their mother or main carer. The first year of a baby’s life is a period of incredible growth, and a baby’s brain goes through critical periods during which stimulation is needed for proper development. During the babies first years, visual stimuli or verbal language is necessary for areas of the brain to grow and without this growth, a child’s vision or speaking abilities might be impaired. Infants tend to have different cries for hunger or pain, as well as making other noises. These abilities show your child is gaining communication and pre-language skills. Infants from birth to 6 months will forget about objects they cannot see however they begin to explore objects they can see and grab by putting them in their mouths. They will also follow moving objects with their eyes and look around at nearby objects. Infants in this stage will turn to look at a source of sound. These developmental milestones show a baby’s brain is developing and they are gaining new skills. From 7 to 12 months, infants also learn the idea of cause and effect, and they might repeat an action that causes a

Don't underestimate children's ability to communicate even though their verbal language skills may be nonexistent or minimal (Gonzalez-Mena & Eyer, 2015, p. 6). For this principle to tell the differences between each infant cries, words, movements, and facial expressions I would learn their unique ways of communicating by spending time with time.

Humans act toward people, things, and events on the basis of the meanings they assign to them. Once people define a situation as real, it has very real consequences. Without language there would be no thought, no sense of self, and no socializing presence of society within the individual. (Socio-cultural tradition)

In this short video, a baby keeps trying to talk to his mom by babbling. Like mentioned in chapter four, children from an early age try to communicate throughout many methods and babbling is one of them. This baby is a perfect example that maybe it’s true that humans are born with a disposition to communicate and to use language. This baby by babbling is playing with his vocals while babbling he is repeating true syllables, which are consonants plus vowels. This stage leads the child to start noticing that some sounds lead to particular situations.

At a certain age infants begin to resist the unfamiliar and are very vocal in expressing their feelings (Brazelton, 1992).

The communication theory was proposed by S.F Scudder in the year 1980. It states that all living beings existing on the planet communicate although the way of communication is different. The universal law of the communication theory says that all living things, whether they’re plants, animals or human beings, communicate through sound, speech, visible changes, body movements, gestures or in the best way possible to make others aware of their thoughts, feelings, problems, happiness or any other information. (Merton, R.K. 2001)

The study came about when one of the authors of the study’s postdoctoral students had new additions to their families. What initially was a round of sympathetic shoulders to cry and lament on about the work load of being a new parent turned into a science inquiry about the nature of communication in screams.

Goldstein performed this experiment to discover how social feedback influences babbling and speech development in young infants, and whether social feedback affects an infant’s speech development. To perform this experiment, Goldstein took 30 infants, randomly chosen from birth announcements, ranging from 6-10 months along with their mothers and randomly assigned them to 1 of 2 groups, either the CC or YC group. The experiment occurred in a large playroom and consisted of 30-minute play sessions, during these sessions, how the mother responded and at what rate she responded to the infant’s vocalizations was manipulated (Goldstein, 2003). Half of the mothers were instructed to responded immediately when their infant made a vocalization(CC)

At another extreme, there are others who would tell parents to respond to their crying infants. Proponents of this practice believe that responding to a crying infant will contribute to the development of infant trust and attachment. According to Ludington-Hoe, Cong & Hashemi (2002), failing to respond to an infant’s cries quickly, regularly and thoroughly may lead to low self-esteem and a damaged attachment between the caregiver and the infant. Yet, there are still many parents who delay responding to infant crying due to the belief that infants can be spoiled when their cries are answered. Parents can be reassured that this belief is not supported by any research and neuroplasticity suggests that managing early infant crying appropriately

Soothing a crying baby can be frustrating and exhausting. Many new parents seek help from their families, doctors and social media in hopes that their crying baby will stop crying. On the other hand parents who don’t know how to seek for help result in experiencing extreme exhaustion, distress and frustration. Despite the many attempts parents have made to decrease their infants cry, parents can result in having harmful thoughts about their infant and in fact these harmful thoughts can result in child abuse and neglect (Glodowski, & Thompson, 2017). In order to help parents soothe their crying infant, educators implemented educational programs that would help a parent overcome frustration and distress on themselves and their infant. These

I was matched up with Spencer when dyadic partners were randomly chosen. I took it upon faith who I was going to get paired with. Ironically, we both sat at the same table, also, I wanted to partner up with Spencer because I thought we would have a lot in common by the appearance that she portrayed about herself. We always met at the cafeteria in the Parks building around noon, for her class ended around that time. Our meetings were usually 30-45 minutes long, except for the last encounter, that was an hour and a half. Due to myself always being on campus and insisting we meet in the cafeteria for my convenience sake, it resulted to us always having encounters on campus. Furthermore, I pick up my daughter at 4 pm from daycare and chose not to meet up after that time with my partner due to family priorities.

The purpose of this essay is to discuss Denis McQuail’s four concepts of communication in contemporary Western culture. It will be discussed in this essay how each media form exhibits a communication model and to what extent that it does so. It will also be discussed whether each of these models are independent or correlated. For each communication model, a different media form will be used to explain how it is being manifested. Television broadcasting will be used to explain the transmission model, magazine advertisements will be used to explain the publicity model, websites will be used to shed light on the ritual model and lastly, newspapers will be used to prove the existence of the reception model.