31 JUL 2011 by ideonexus The Stages of Moral Development
Three stages of moral development, of which the third many people never reach.
Folksonomies: development,ethics,morality

18 JUL 2011 by ideonexus How Brains Grow Into Bodies
Best description yet of the synaptic "pruning" human brains go through as the brain wires up to the body and best reason yet for why children should have rich, mentally-nourishing environments in which to grow so that their synapses don't get unnecessarily pruned, resulting in smaller brains.
Folksonomies: nature,parenting,genetics,development,dna,nature vs nurture,nurture

08 JUL 2011 by ideonexus Babies are Scientists
Their drive to play is a drive to explore, they are equipped with the cognitive and physical tools to explore their world and feed their curiosity about it.
Folksonomies: scientists,babies,development

08 JUL 2011 by ideonexus Nature VS Nurture in Child Development
Are babies programmed to go through their cognitive developments or are they the natural result of their reaching a certain critical mass of understanding?
Folksonomies: babies,development,nature vs nurture

08 JUL 2011 by ideonexus Baby's Cognitive Development Summarized
The sequence of events in a child's development indicates that it's not all learned, there is a programming in the brain that follows a natural course, ready for the world.
Folksonomies: development,language,blank slate,nature vs nurture

08 JUL 2011 by ideonexus How Motherese Teaches Babies Language
With its characteristic slow, repetitive enunciation of the words in culture's language, Motherese seems like an instinctual way a mother habituates their child to the sound categorizations of their language. This begs the question: if the Motherese imitates the sounds of another language, would that stave off the child's failure to distinguish foreign sounds later on?
Folksonomies: babies,development,language

08 JUL 2011 by ideonexus Babies Categorize Sounds Before Words
Babies learn the sounds of their language, which gives them the ability to distinguish and categorize words later on.
Folksonomies: babies,development,language

08 JUL 2011 by ideonexus Babies Can Distinguish Sounds Adults Cannot
Before a baby learns the sounds of their language, they can distinguish the sounds of any language. Later, they are unable to distinguish the non-categorized sounds when produced in other languages.
Folksonomies: babies,development,language

08 JUL 2011 by ideonexus When Babies Learn Categorization
By three years of age, children develop a fairly sophisticated sense of categorization. Perhaps a playing close attention to taxonomy will benefit the child at this stage in their development.
Folksonomies: education,babies,development,taxonomy

08 JUL 2011 by ideonexus Psychological VS Mechanical Causality in Infant Understanding
Babies learn the differences between psychological and physical causality, before this they tend to make the mistake of using psychological means to influence the physical world... Magical thinking in adults may be a holdover of this habit.
Folksonomies: babies,development,magical thinking,psychological,mechanical