Chapter 6: Post 1.

While reading through chapter six, I found many interesting concepts and ideas about language development in children, beginning from the day that they are born. As children grow, they become more aware of their surroundings and begin to understand and interpret the words being spoken to them. Reading through this chapter has also helped me begin to understand how babies function in a sense, or how they view the things in their lives as they grow. One topic that stood out for me was dynamic perception and people preference. Dynamic perception focuses on the movement and change of the child as they grow. Children love motion, they constantly want to be doing something whether it would be crawling, grabbing, and so on. Movement is a source of pleasure for children, and it makes me understand why children have so much energy when they're younger, and why it's so much easier to help calm down a crying baby once they are picked up and carried around for awhile. It's amazing to think that throughout every moment of their infant lives, they are continuing to learn and absorb everything that is going on around them. People preference refers to an innate attraction to other humans by means of visual and voice preferences. The mother is normally the first person that a baby is able to recognize, but it is important to have many other familiar faces to the child to interpret throughout its infant life. Sometimes, when we meet an infant for the first time and the child begins to cry, we instantly think that the child doesn't like us, but in reality they just haven't quite been able to process who we are yet because our voice and face is unfamiliar to them. But, we might notice that with frequent visits with the child allow them to understand and interpret who we are. It's simply a constant learning process for children during their early life.