Peek-A-boo is a game which involves two individuals, where one individual hides their eyes and face from their counterpart and then surprises them by simply uncovering their eyes or face and saying the phrase "Peek-a-boo, I see you". When the game of "Peek-a-boo" is played with a baby, the baby shows approval by being surprised as he/she smiles and laughs. Evidence of early stages of social, physical, cognitive as well as emotional growth and development is observed as the baby reacts with excitement, and mimics facial expressions. Within the early months of development of the fetal brain functions, simple emotions such as smiling or laughing while playing games such a "Peek-a-boo" reveal the development of the brain. Consequently, the neurons, …show more content…
axons, synapses as well as dendrites all work together in order for the baby to understand that their counterpart in the game of "Peek-a-boo" still exists even if the baby cannot see them. This developed ability is described as object permanence. During the game of peek-a-boo, the following process occurs in the babies brain.
As the counterpart covers their face, the neuron, which is the main functional unit of the nerve tissue in the brain sends a signal to the dendrites which acts as a receiver. Once the signal is received by the dendrites, it moves through a long tube (called the axon) to the axon terminal. The signal fires along the branches from the terminal along the synapse to another neuron that acknowledges the existence of the counterpart. Upon the caregiver removing hands from their face and reappearing, the same sequential process goes through the synapse, which are spaces between neurons that allow for the flow of electrical impulses to another neuron. The signal will go through the same process, but with different neurons, dendrite, axons, and, axon terminals allowing the baby to smile or laugh. Caregivers who often play peek-a-boo with their babies, will strengthen the infants' ability to understand object permanence and exercise the brain's fetal structure for growth and development. If these structures are not being used the concept of "use it or lose it" occurs. Once certain neurons are no longer used within the brain, the synapse linking to that particular neuron "forgets" how, and the connection disappears. Children must use neural connections in order for those neurons to remain
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Beginning at birth and lasting for the first 24 months of a child’s life, the sensorimotor stage is a period of rapid cognitive growth. The infant has no concept of the world around him, other than what he sees from his own perspective and experiences through his senses and motor movements. One of the most important developments in
When parent and child make eye contact, they initiate a harmonic meeting of the mind. As the mother and child gaze into each other eyes, the baby will gaze into the mother’s eye with a radiant smile and the mother will automatically respond with a lot of emotion and verbal and bodily joyfulness and they smile back. The brain of the mother and child are synchronizing the neural activity in the right cortex of each brain. “The brain rhythms are getting in tune, performing a kind of mind- meld that is very pure form of intimacy” (Brown
David Vetter born 21 September 1971 or better known by media as “David the bubble boy” was diagnosed with SICD which resulted in him being very susceptible to diseases viruses and other harmful bacteria in which his body would be unable to protect against these pathogens. The reason why he was named “bubble boy” is because as soon as David was born he was placed into a sterile, bacteria free chamber to prevent him from dying. Although he lived all his love inside of such an environment this was only supposed to be a temporary solution before he could get a bone marrow transplant. Ultimately he died at the age of 12, 4 months after the transplant, when it was found the transplant contained an infection. He died the 22 February 1984. The world
Let’s say that there is a mechanical sense. If someone touched your hand, your somatosensory system will detect various stimuli by your skin’s sensory receptors. The sensory information is then conveyed to the central nervous system by afferent neurons. The neuron’s dendrites will pass that information to the cell body, and on to its axon. From there it is passed onto the spinal cord or the brainstem. The neuron's ascending axons will cross to the opposite side either in the spinal cord or in the brainstem. The axons then terminates in the thalamus, and on into the Brodmann Area of the parietal lobe of the brain to process.
Children are born with an ability to communicate their immediate needs to their mothers, nurses or caregivers by crying or displays of other emotions. As they develop more knowledge of language they are able to point, look at objects and smile to acknowledge they are pleased with, or otherwise, what they are receiving.
...d they continue to hear it for years to come. However, that still doesn’t explain to me why infants find the game of Peek-A-Boo so amusing. After all this research I’m starting to think that they laugh and say to themselves inside their heads, “look a this fool, she thinks I don’t know she’s there when she covers her face. What a joke she is.”
In this sub-stage the baby is learning about their surrounding environment by using their reflexes, which includes sucking when given a bottle or breast and how they can interact with their surroundings.
1. Emotions in early childhood have been studied time by time again, to come to a conscience method on how emotions are developed from the start. The earliest emotions that are expressed in the first six months of an infant’s life are things like surprise, interest, joy, anger, sadness, fear, and disgust with a plethora of other emotions began to spawn. Emotions have proven to be important roles in communication with others and behavioral organization. Infants use these aspects to determine interactions weather emotions would be positive or negative.
From birth, our everyday experiences and interactions with the people around us help to grow and shape the brain. The child-caregiver relationship is a key element in healthy cognitive development, and has a lasting impact on the child’s life. Through this positive relationship the child learns and cultivates their understanding of people and the world around them. These experiences will help determine the level of motor skills, visual skills, and learning abilities that a child will possess in their future. A responsive caregiver provides the serve-and-return interactions a child needs to develop healthy brain circuitry. A healthy example of serve-and-return is when an infant babbles and gestures to an object, the caregiver responds accordingly by smiling and naming the object. This interaction lays the foundation for creating a link between the object and the word. As children age they learn about cause and effect, spatial relationships, problem solving, number sense, and classification. They learn these skills through the use of symbolic play and imitation.
Looking into the minds of young girls and boys, superheroes is what many will find. The superheroes always having their trusty sidekicks and they will fight the evil villain to save the world. Many wonder how a superhero and a sidekick or a villian and their crazy friends actually work so well together, even though they're complete opposites. Well this is dramatic foil, a concept used by writers, comic creators, and screen writers to make the perfect duo. There is so many examples of dramatic foil. There's one in every play, book, comic, or story in general. Three great examples of dramatic foil are Will Herondale and Jem Carstairs from the Infernal Devices series; Harley Quinn and Joker from Batman; and Jace Herondale and Alec Lightwood from the Mortal Instruments series. These characters are the basis of a great foil.
Many people believe the myth that a baby’s brain is fully formed at birth. However the notion has been uncovered in that last twenty years as false. A baby’s brain continues to form and develop after birth. Inside the human brains are small cell bodies called neurons. Neurons are the operating pieces in the brain. Every neuron is connected to dendrites, or arms. Dendrites connect one neuron to another and can detect chemical signals with a synapse, a part where nerve impulses are broadcasted or accepted. An electrical impul...
Piaget’s theory suggests that, at eight weeks of age, a child is in a sensorimotor stage. This means their sensory and motor skills are kicking in and the child begins to suck, grasp, look around and reach. Dayc...
...that is too far beyond the child's level. As an infant's cognitive development grows he knows how to use things to his advantage. His new smiles help to hold mother's attention longer. He also learns that as mother moves slowly from one side of him to the other, he can move his eyes and head to sustain the interaction. However, if his mother moves out of sight and the baby loses her altogether because he does not yet have the ability to remember and reproduce her image in his mind. Either he will fuss because the schema that he was in is gone, or he will switch on another schema, such as comforting himself by thumb sucking. There is a process to this development that does take a long time to develop fully, but with the help of loved one you can help your child be successful and learn to engage in activities that are good for him and his cognitive learning process.
The sensorimotor stage , from birth to age 2 ,feeling and action by the individual .Understanding of the world. Reflection exercise period (0-1 months) in this time the baby will give the response for any exciting such as moving head looking nipple and so on. after that baby shows initial reaction cycle appears, they have some habit n the development process of this period, the Piaget also proposed the concept of "circular reaction". The baby start to learn how to make voice and hold with all the objects they can see, try to cantle touch and vision , Conserved object concept began to appear at this stage. Baby began to understand the relationship between target, for example if the parents take the toy alway from baby. the baby may shack the parents hand to express the needs. In 12-18 mouths the baby try to create new formats , for example put the toy on other side of bed, baby will try to get it ,but it too far to get it, the result of this case is baby found pull the sheet can help shorten the distance. The final stage of sensorimotor is judgment, baby can know something with out of touch and
Once control has been gained of this part of the body, babies will then gain control of other parts of the body moving downwards (i.e. arms then legs etc)