Physical development:
- Birth: Reflexes & eye control (rooting reflex, stepping reflex, suckling)
- 6-7 months: Sits & reaches, motor control & understanding
- 11-13 months: Walking, first words, memory, motor control, balance
Proto-language = Early signs of language, no meaning, just rhythm
- DeCasper & Spence (1986): Infants prefer stories read to them in the womb
- Revee - Coller et al (1997): Infants learn to mobe + connections btwn actions & effects
Depth perception: Gibson & Walk, 1960: Distress when crawling over visual cliff (perception)
Habituation: Slater, Morrison & Rose, 1983: Look for less time after repetition, habituate then dishabituate. Induces visual references, tests wider variety of stimuli. Shows memory/learning.
Piaget --> Start as egocentric, NO object permanance. Sensori-motor knowledge limited to senses
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