sensory and motor development

1. The preferential-looking paradigm

1.1. Playing a tone though earphones for a baby to hear and then waiting to see whether they look up with intrest

2. Vision

2.1. New borns are legally blind

2.2. sight improves to 20/20 by age 1

2.3. By age one we are less sensitive to facial features in people of other ethnic groups

2.4. we have " unlearned" how to distinguish two monkey faces

3. By the age of 8 months a child should be frightened of the cliff

4. early motor skill while pointing to later high IQ have no relationship to his later cognitive abilities

5. Ways to Baby-proof

5.1. outlet covers

5.2. putting up anything:

5.2.1. Sharp

5.2.2. Poisonous

5.2.3. breakable

5.3. carpeting hard surface floors

5.4. Padding hard corners

5.5. putting latches on cabnet doors