Cognitive Ability
Learning that involves picking up on patterns in the environment
What is statistical learning?
Infant communication includes
What is gestures and sounds?
Babies begin preparing for speech by
What is crying, cooing and babbling?
Babies in utero around 6-7 months
What is hearing their moms?
Language in communicating with infants and your children that includes short utterances, simple syntax and core vocabulary
What is CDS or IDS?
The ability to identify commonalities among objects
What is categorization?
Infants sound patterns are reflecting what they hear in their daily life
What is by the "end of year 1"?
Infants speak their first word
What is 12 months or 1 year?
Around 3 months of age, infants begin demonstrating recognition
What is a social smile?
An infant re-vocalizes when the caregiver responds to the initial vocalization of the infant which forms the basis for future conversational skills
What is proto-conversations?
The ability to choose where to direct attention
What is selective attention?
Infants beginning to point at things
What is 6-10 months old?
Infants producing single consonants and vowels /ma, da, ba/
What is 4-6 months old?
Mutual gaze, participating in rituals, and frequent smiling and laughter
What is factors associated with better language outcomes?
Shared behaviors between two or more individuals with a common focus
What is Joint Attention?
Statistical Learning for infants means the ability to track patterns among
What is sounds, syllables and words?
Between 8-10 months in infancy this happens
What is intentional communication?
Infants begin reduplicating CV syllables /ma-ma-ma/ or /da-da-da/
What is 6-10 months old?
Infants gestures are an early way of
What is naming or requesting?
This is used by mothers to teach initiation, invite and signal readiness
What is Mock Surprise?
Children's ability to understand speech likely depends on
What is categorization, selective attention and phonological working memory?
Around 9 months, infants begin to understand that other people have different ideas, thoughts and beliefs
What is theory of mind?
Infants begin to use stings of varigated babbling resembling adult-like conversation
What is Jargon?
Chaos in the home, high emotionality, and lack of orienting to parent
What are factors associated with poorer language outcomes?
Three functions of IDS
What is gain and hold infant's attention, establish emotional bonds and opportunity for early communication?