The Developing Person
Through the Life Span
Eighth Edition
Kathleen Stassen Berger
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