Tma01 Assignment 2
TMA01 - Essay
Option 2
Imagine you are a nursery worker. The manager is planning some changes to the environment of the nursery and to the play activities. Before she does so, she wants to understand more about the auditory and visual perception of infants. She has asked you to write an overview of the major developments of the infant’s auditory and visual abilities during the first 18 months of life. Write an essay, drawing on research evidence, which describes the development of infants’ sensory abilities and how research has generated this knowledge.
Auditory & Visual Perception Of Infants
This essay will look at views on how infants perceive the world. It will focus on the empiricist view and the nativist view; we will try and understand how sensation, perception, cognition and behaviour go hand-in-hand. The auditory and visual perception of infants including the importance of cross-modal perception.
At birth the nervous system, which includes the sensory pathway has not yet been developed and it is therefore difficult to asses or understand what babies can sense. There are different views and theories on how infants …show more content…
Piaget’s theory takes experience as the starting point of knowledge. However, on the other hand the Nativist view argues that infants are born with some basic knowledge and understanding. There are two different forms of this view which have appeared over the years: “Core knowledge (Spelke) babies have a basic understanding physical objects, numbers at birth. Social knowledge (Meltzoff) babies are born with an understanding of faces and people as social objects.” (Book 1 Chapter 3 Page
Option 2
Imagine you are a nursery worker. The manager is planning some changes to the environment of the nursery and to the play activities. Before she does so, she wants to understand more about the auditory and visual perception of infants. She has asked you to write an overview of the major developments of the infant’s auditory and visual abilities during the first 18 months of life. Write an essay, drawing on research evidence, which describes the development of infants’ sensory abilities and how research has generated this knowledge.
Auditory & Visual Perception Of Infants
This essay will look at views on how infants perceive the world. It will focus on the empiricist view and the nativist view; we will try and understand how sensation, perception, cognition and behaviour go hand-in-hand. The auditory and visual perception of infants including the importance of cross-modal perception.
At birth the nervous system, which includes the sensory pathway has not yet been developed and it is therefore difficult to asses or understand what babies can sense. There are different views and theories on how infants …show more content…
Piaget’s theory takes experience as the starting point of knowledge. However, on the other hand the Nativist view argues that infants are born with some basic knowledge and understanding. There are two different forms of this view which have appeared over the years: “Core knowledge (Spelke) babies have a basic understanding physical objects, numbers at birth. Social knowledge (Meltzoff) babies are born with an understanding of faces and people as social objects.” (Book 1 Chapter 3 Page