Question: What is the 1 year of the development of language?

Answer: babbling begins and increases; by year’s end, infant masters sounds of own language and usually says his first word

Question: What are the two primary components of language development?

Answer: - Learning to make signs

• Learning grammer

• Question: What perceptual abilities do newborns and infants have?

• Answer: the perceptual abilities that newborns and infants have are mature perception skills

• Question: What processes occur during the first years of life that enable a child to expand his or her skills?

• Answer: maturation

• Question: How do psychologists measure the capabilities of newborns?

• Answer: They do this by watching the infant’s sucking, the patterns of eye movements, and expressions of pleasure and displeasure are all closely tied to how the infant is being stimulated.

• Question: What innate capacities do newborns have?

• Answer: see, hear, smell, and respond to the environment

• Question: What are the two views of how behaviors develop?

• Answer: heredity and environment

• Question: What do developmental psychologists study?

• Answer: how an individual’s physical, social, emotional, moral, and intellectual growth and development occur in sequential interrelated stages throughout the life cycle

• Question: In what period of life do humans change the fastest and learn the most?

• Answer: early childhood

• Question: What is the 2 year of the development of language?

• Answer: Infant will progress to saying dozens of words; begins to speak in paired words; to ask a question