Chapter Outline

Piaget's Theory of Infant Development

• The Stage of Sensorimotor Development
  • Substages
  • Simple Reflexes
  • First Habits and Primary Circular Reactions
  • Secondary Circular Reactions
  • Coordination of Secondary Circular Reactions
  • Tertiary Circular Reactions, Novelty, and Curiosity
• Object Permanence
  • Research on Object Permanence and Causality
• Evaluating Piaget's Sensorimotor Stage
  • Perceptual Development
  • Cognitive Development

Learning and Remembering

• Conditioning
• Habituation and Dishabituation
• Imitation
• Memory

Individual Differences in Intelligence

Early Environmental Influences on Cognitive Development

• Nutrition
• Poverty

Language Development

• Defining Language
• How Language Develops
  • Babbling and Other Early Vocalizations
  • Recognizing Language Sounds
  • First Words
  • Two-Word Utterances
  • Language Production and Language Comprehension
• Biological Influences
  • Biological Evolution
  • The Brain's Role in Language
  • Biological Prewiring
• Behavioral and Environmental Influences