Cognitive And Cognitive Process

Infancy is an exciting and fascinating time in a child’s life. For the parent, it is a time of new experiences and discovering what their new child will be like. For the child it is the beginning of life, a whole new world filled with new experiences, sights, and sounds. There are so many elements to this phase, but the three biggest elements are the physical, cognitive, and socioemotional processes. The best way to demonstrate these processes is to interview someone who is going or has recently gone through this stage of life with an infant. I interviewed my cousin Monica, who has a two year old daughter named Bella. For children, the physical process can be defined by a vast spectrum of experiences, because the physical process encompasses learning so many vital functions to the human experience. For Bella, walking defined the physical process. Bella was a very curious and determined individual, and once she figured out how to walk, she got into everything. The contents of any cabinets and anything in reach weren’t safe once Bella began

Bella’s brother, Noah, is a very smart little boy and very talkative as well. He had the tendency to talk for Bella and at other times talk so much, that Bella didn’t get a chance to talk that much. This lead to a bit of a delay in Bella’s speech compared to her brother, so she didn’t really start talking until she was about nine months old. Some of her first words were Mema, no, and bye. Bella’s cognitive development in general was a little bit slower, and this manifested itself in her ability to repeat, point, and play. She often compensated with her quicker physical development, by walking, climbing, and getting into whatever she wanted. According to Biringen, Emde, Campos, & Appelbaum (1995) “Walking infants also demonstrate increased “testing of wills” in social interactions with their parents in comparison with crawling