The First Two Years: Cognitive Development Part II Chapter Six The First Two Years: Cognitive Development Sensorimotor Intelligence Information Processing Language: What Develops in the First Two Years?

Sensorimotor Intelligence Stages One and Two: Primary Circular Reactions Stages Three and Four: Secondary Circular Reactions New Directions Object Permanence

Sensorimotor Intelligence A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Object Permanence Revisited Stages Five and Six: Tertiary Circular Reactions Piaget and Modern Research Boredom as a Research Method Measuring the Brain

Information Processing Affordances Research on Early Affordances Sudden Drops Movement and People

Information Processing Memory Reminders and Repetition A Little Older, a Little More Memory Aspects of Memory

Language: What Develops in the First Two Years? The Universal Sequence Listening and Responding Babbling First Words Gradual Beginnings The Naming Explosion

Language: What Develops in the First Two Years? Cultural Differences Parts of Speech Putting Words Together

Language: What Develops in the First Two Years? Theories of Language Learning Theory One: Infants Need to Be Taught Theory Two: Social Impulses Foster Infant Language Theory Three: Infants Teach Themselves A Hybrid Theory