Cognitive Development Process

d with everyone around him speaking and moving. Everything is new to him, but as he hears and sees, he picks up on what is familiar and learns the main idea. The Lesson we learn before we even can remember and use it every time we hear jargon. (3)
             Our Brain defines our lives as Human, but grows like every other organ in our body. "We define ourselves by who defines us as children. The idea that our body learns all of it's essential life skills to survive, in the mother's womb, mother nature, or in it's first 3 years of life. The Study of psychology and physical changes that take place throughout a person's life is Developmental Psychology. Newborns or 'neonates' are passive and may seem completely stupid. Especially when all they do is sleep, eat and cry completely oblivious to the world. Neonates may be small, ignorant little creatures but they learn to be a functional human in a matter of 3 years. (3)
             Imagine the world as a neonate what it would be like to come from warm, wet, and dark place. Only to is thrust into a bright, noisy, and sensory filled world. Now that they are here, they most learn to make sense of it all. Infants seem to be 'preprogrammed' to survey the world around them. Research done by Robert Fantz in 1961 found that two-month-old infants preferred pictures of a human face to any other picture. However, this all has to do with age, at the age of 5-10 weeks they are more interested in complex patterns; at this age vision is not fully developed. By 15-20 week they prefer pattern that are face like, and stare longer at those patterns.
             A study by Campos et al in 1970 showed that infants did not fear being place near a visual cliff. The visual
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