Infant Perception Ability

Obiel Macedo, a one year and seven month old infant accomplished many tasks on the developmental checklist. I went to his house, his mother and baby sister were present while I was with him. We sat down and I handed the infant a small container filled with different size blocks. Immediately he grabbed the container, poured out the blocks and began to build a tower quickly. Once he was done creating the tower of blocks, a few seconds later he knocked it down vigorously and started all over again. Then, I handed him a red crayon and a blank sheet of paper, but instead of writing on the paper he went up to the wall and scribbles spontaneously.

On October 16, 2017, I observed in the infant room from 8:30 a.m. until 11:00 a.m.. The child I observed was a female and just turned eight months old. Indicators given by the child during the observation, show that the child is progressing at a normal developmental pace and even excelling in other areas. Through observing her, I noticed her motor skills were excelling beyond what was expected. She was pulling herself up and standing. I would often notice her attempting to walk after she was standing or even balancing on one foot. She would often be standing on her toes and using her arms to hold herself up. She showed a lot of strength in her motor development. I even observed her using problem solving skills to look over a shelf that was

Research with infants and hearing has determined that infants are primed to hear human speech and will attune to those sounds rather than others. This can be identified as a biological imperative in order to assure they are cared for by adults. This manner of behavior may not be consistent if there are other sounds that are louder and above the threshold of human language. This researcher hypothesizes that if an infant is presented with two sounds, one of a person saying their name at a low volume and the other a dog barking at a higher volume, the infant will respond and attune to the louder sound. This attunement is due to safety and possibly a startle reflex to protect themselves rather than a drive to learn and respond to human speech.

For this assessment I chose to observe my six- month old daughter, Abigail, interacting with her mother, Melissa. Abigail is our third child and Melissa is comfortable with her role as mother. Abigail was born full term and is a healthy baby. All developmental milestones have been reached up until this point. She is a happy baby.

Despite having numerous species roaming the Earth, infants and young children are more fascinated with human speech. There are certain characteristics in human speech that distinguish it from any other species found in Earth. Previous studies performed by speech language pathologists show that infants and young children are particularly fond of familiar voices, and are easily able to respond more quickly to them as opposed to strangers. Whether the adults realize it or not, they speak to their children differently than to an adult. The intonation and rhythm in the adult’s voice are usually different around young children, causing the adults to be able to get the children’s attention. Over the years, speech language pathologists have conducted

Since my observation took the course of three days I have several findings. So day one’s observation begin with Regina and Gabriella who appear to be accompanying Annabel to what appears to be a building of great interest. While the exterior looked plain the inside does not the walls are lined with these brilliant garments the walls are also adorned with several looking glass. When they enter Annabel begins communicating with another human who then leaves and the three appear to sit on these rectangular prisms. The human from earlier comes back and she is followed by four other humans who each appear to be bringing a square on wheels and in these squares each appear to be carrying five brilliant garments. When I first entered the building there

The ability to distinguish sounds helps babies to develop language because with that ability they can distinguis the different sounds each language makes. For example

Perceptual abilities were thought to be only developed in the later year of infancy until new techniques for studying infant perception proved this theory wrong and that infants have the ability right after birth. Physically newborns can see 7-15 inches away, which is also the distance that the parents face is when holding the newborn. Infants sight will keep expanding as they continue to grow and the by age one it is said that their visual perception will be at the point where their vision is the best it will ever be. Infants show their interest in visual perception by looking at patterns and objects for long period of times than they do with less vibrant objects and colors Patterns are a lot more visual for infants than just plain colors

1.5.1 Vision: Birth to Six Months an infant’s brain is not wired for sight at the time of birth. In the early days after birth most of time infants sleep. As they grow sleeping time reduces. The first six months of life is the period of developing vision. Keeping infants in a dark room or covering newborns eye’s, it is not feasible to recover their vision. Their sight may not develop normally. Once passed, this window of opportunity is not feasible to recover. After the birth newborn’s are examined, for cataract. If at all any cataract covering the lens of the eye is present, it needs to be removed. Vision is one sense that develops with little stimulation. Infants need interesting objects to look at, including toys and people.

To quote child analyst Esther Bick, “one may have to sit with children for a long time completely in the dark about what is going on, until something suddenly comes up from the depth that illuminates it.” (Bick 1962, p.632). Infant observation is a powerful tool when working with children that helps clarify what it is that ‘comes up from the depth’. This paper will briefly outline the history, principles and value in infant observation. I will then further examine my own experience of infant observation of four year old S.

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The Development of Visual Short- Term Memory Capacity in Infants was written by Shannon Ross-Sheehy, Lisa M. Oakes, and Steven J. Luck. Shannon Ross-Sheehy is an Assistant Professor in The University of Iowa. She works in the department of psychology and earned her Ph.D. at the University of Iowa. Lisa M. Oakes is a professor at Davis Center for Mind and Brain. She earned her Ph.D. in psychology at The University of Texas, and earned her B.A. in psychology at The University of California in San Diego. She’s a member of a few organizations such as American Psychological Association, Internal Congress of Infant Studies, Society for Research in Child Development and many more. Steven J. Luck is the director of Center for Mind and Brain. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S in neuroscience at The University of California, and he also earned his B.A in Psychology at Reed

During infancy, development occurs at a rapid pace. Within the first year, four core cognitive abilities exist that are unique from each other: attention, speed of processing, memory, and representational competence (Rose, Feldman, and Jankowski, 2004). A rapid development of visual attention manifests within the first 3 months alone (Geva, & Gardner,1999), and as a result, one aspect of infant visual attention that is commonly examined is look duration among infant populations. Look duration is related to infant cognitive performance such that infants with shorter looking behaviors are able to process information faster and more efficiently than infants with longer

The reading “Some Remarks on Infant Observation, A. Freud”, was very interesting as it was based on the observation of newborns/infants and mother and infant relationship by students who are training to be physicians and psychotherapist. The field of human development from a new born baby throughout childhood development is focused on changing the way we think about children’s mind. The core of Ana Freud’s theory is to gain solid understanding of what is normal in the newborn infant period. Through observations the students were able to understand the mental life of the baby and the exchanges of thoughts and feelings between infants and their mother.

New born infants have poor visual acuity as opposed to adults. Visual acuity measures to what extent an individual can detect visual detail. Their lack of visual acuity means they see the world a more ill-defined manner. Adult visual acuity is thirty times the visual acuity of a new born (Van Hof-van Duin & Mohn 1985). Atkinson & Bradrick (1981), supported this and found that new born infants could only detect the separation of lines if they are 30 times wider than the minimum width adults can detect. There is at least a five-fold improvement by 6 months of age in acuity, though it takes several years for it to reach adult level, Brown & Yamamoto 1986. New born infants also have poor visual accommodation, needed to make sharp retinal images at different distances.