June 7, 2005
Chapter 4.
Preverbal Communication
Chapter Four
Fact Formulators
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Kelli C. Jones
Friday, June 3, 2005 11:45 am
1) Infants prefer to look at photographs of faces rather than line drawings,
models, or distorted faces with scrambled features.
2) The concept of object permanence is a key precursor to the ability to use
words to represent ideas.
3) Babies sucking on pacifiers increased their rate of sucking when a new or
novel stimulus caught their attention and then decreased their sucking rate
when they habituated to that stimulus.
4) Communication between the mother and the infant is important in preparing
for the child's early use of language.
5) The child's development of intentional communication is a stage of
cognitive development that must be achieved before language appears.
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Cassandra Y. Deaton
Sunday, June 5, 2005 10:20 pm
Infants prefer to look at patterns as opposed to colors but are most interested in the human face. By 3 months, infants can begin identifying other people, especially their mothers.
Infants have good auditory perception. Some research has suggested that infants are sensitive to sound even before birth. One research project showed how infants between 1 and 4 months could already discriminate between the "pa" and "ba" sounds.
Mothers often treat their babies as social beings. The mothers talk to the baby as though they can understand, and then the mother will speak for the baby. The mothers probably synchronize their own behavior with the infant's so that turn taking is done. The mother is unknowingly teaching the child some of the rules involved in carrying on a conversation.
Children often learn and start using language through games. Kids will begin learning by repeating words heard in the game. The child also learns how to take turns and is introduced to the idea of predictable outcomes.
Researchers have found that before the onset of language can begin, young children must first perform the communicative acts of protodeclaratives (using an object to gain an adult's attention), and protoimperatives (using an adult to gain a desired object).
Chapter Four
Word Wizards
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Hayley Wages
Sunday, June 5, 2005 1:47 pm
object permanence — the idea that things exist in the world independently of our perception of them.
scaffolding — refers to activities in which the child behaves under the guidance of an adult.
protodeclaratives — the use of an object to gain adult attention.
protoimperatives — use of an adult to gain a desired object.
object — object coordination-indicates the childs understanding that objects can be used as an instrument to achieve some end.
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Brooke E. Parker
Tuesday, June 7, 2005 10:34 pm
Object Permanence- The idea that things exist in the world independently of our perception of them.
Language Game- Under the guidance of the mother (or other adult) the child enters into a variety of self-contained, rule-governed activities (games such as peek-a-boo and ride-a-horsie, book reading) involving limited, repetitive language use, turn-taking, and predictable outcomes.
Protodeclaratives- Characterized as the use of an object to gain adult attention.
Protoimperatives- Characterized as the use of an adult to gain a desired object
Chapter Four
Cyber Citer Summarizers
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Jennifer Lovette
Saturday, June 4, 2005 5:58pm
We learn in the first section of chapter 4 that babies have remarkable visual and auditory
skills . Infants prefer the human face. Also, research shows that at 5 weeks old, babies
can recognize their mothers' faces. An experiment by Bernard and Sontag showed that a
fetus can respond to sound away from the abdomen. Other research shows that infants
can sense different sounds at an early age. The section about mother - infant interaction
states that communication is important for the child's language development. It also
discusses the ways that mothers involve their babies in conversations. There is an
example of a mother talking to her son in the car and treating the conversation as she
would with an adult but answering her own questions. It also says that games and other
interactions become an important way for children to learn language. The last section
basically repeats that it is important for children to interact with their environment and
others in order to develop their language skills.
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Leia Jackson
Sunday, June 5, 2005 10:39pm
Chapter 4 explains how an infant's preverbal communication
experiences provide foundations for later social communication and
linguistic interactions. This chapter reveals evidence indicating that
newborns are equipped to begin interacting with their environment
at birth. They explain the visual perceptions of children. Children
prefer pattern, especially patterns, to color. The discriminations and
recognitions of objects are beginning steps in the infant's
development of the concept of object permanence. Auditory
perception in children was also discussed. Infants at astonishingly
young ages seem able to perceive differences among the sounds we
make when we speak. As an infant interacts with the environment
and has more and more exposure to the sounds of a language, the
capabilities of the auditory system become shaped and focused.
The mother infant interaction plays an important role in the language
development of children. Putting the infant in a social context is one
way mothers help enhance a child's language development. Under
the guidance of the mother the child enters into a variety of self-
contained, rule-governed activities involving limited, repetitive
language use, turn-taking, and predictive outcomes. Also the child's
development of intentional communication is a stage of cognitive
development that must be achieved before language appears. The
stage of cognitive development appears to be a necessary precursor
to the use of language to communicate.
Chapter Four
Quiz Questors
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Zane J. Graham
Sunday, June 5, 2005 9:55 pm
1. At what age do infants discriminate between faces?
- 2 months
- 6 months
- 3 months
- 1 month
answer c.
. What do infants do when a new stimulus catches their attention?
- look at it
- cry
- smile
- increase rate of sucking on pacifier
answer d.
3. What is it called when adult support is gradually removed from an activity they play with the child allowing the child's ability to carry the game alone?
- motherese
- scaffolding
- alone play time
- building blocks
answer b.
4. What is it called when a child understands an object can be used as an instrument to achieve some end?
- object permanence
- object-object coordination
- protodeclaritive
- person-object coordination
answer b.
5. What is a communication act that is used to get an adults attention?
- protodeclaritive
- object permanence
- protoimperative
- protodemandative
answer a.
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Blaire Perry
Sunday, June 5, 2005 5:43 pm
1) T/F Babies have limited visual and auditory skills. (F)
2) Define Object-Object Coordination. (The child's understanding that an object can be used as an instrument to gain some end.)
3)Who designed experiments to challenge the view on newborns' color and pattern preferences? (Franz)
4) The idea that things exist in the world independently of our preception of them is ______________. (Object Permanence)
5) Around ___ months of age infants begin to regard the human face as a particularly interesting stimulus. (2)
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