Visual Perception In The Newborn Infant: Issues And Debates

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1, After reading this week’s material, what are three key points that you’ve learned about visual perception? use pdf attached below)

2, What can parents do to encourage visual perception development in infants? Provide specific suggestions.

3, Does work on cognitive learning mean the teacher should ignore what is going on emotionally and socially among the children? Justify your response.

4, Describe some things teachers can do that will help make cognitive learning a source of genuine pleasure to the children?

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First Name Last Name
Instructor
Course
13-03-2019

Perception
1. After reading this week’s material, what are three key points that you’ve learned about
visual perception? use pdf attached below)

Through the material this week, it is important to note that perception provides a means of
interpreting the world. It allows for thoughts, emotions and interaction in social relationships to
take shape. It is through perception that these aspects are able to develop from a time when one
is born growing up. Another important thing that I learnt was the fact that when babies are born,
they are normally naïve visually but have their own means of making sense of the world. In as
much as their visual acuity might be poor at birth, they have means of perceiving objects that are
most relevant to them at the time. These objects are normally those that they are closest to them
which they interact with. This means that at birth, infants do not have to learn to see but are
required to learn to make sense of what they see. Lastly, experience of the world in terms of
perception is complex in many ways. There are many entities with surfaces, textures, colors,
shapes, and contours that are in constant change. To complicate matters even more, all these
changes are relative to an individual observer. With all these complexities, a young infant has
been depicted to have visual limitations and that it takes time to develop and learn to making
sense of what they see (Slater).

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2. What can parents do to encourage visual perception development in infants? Provide
specific suggestions.

In order to encourage visual perception development in infants, parents should take time to
engage them in visual tracking. The use of toys or objects such as rattles that can be used to get
the attention of infants should be used close to their faces and allow them to focus on them. The
object should then be moved slowly left and right across their faces allowing them to follow.
When the baby loses the object, shaking it to get their attention back should follow. In addition,
parents can also keep moving the infants. Holding them up while they move to show them
around the room is encouraged. The infants should be allowed time to focus on objects and
people around. Parents should also switch up environments in which they spend time with the
infants so as to allow for diversity in what they perceive.

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Work Cited
Slater, Alan. "Visual perception in the newborn infant: issues and debates." Intellectica 34
(2002): 57-76.

Attached.

First Name Last Name
Instructor
Course
13-03-2019

Perception
1. After reading this week’s material, what are three key points that you’ve learned about
visual perception? use pdf attached below)

Through the material this week, it is important to note that perception provides a means of
interpreting the world. It allows for thoughts, emotions and interaction in social relationships to
take shape. It is through perception that these aspects are able to develop from a time when one
is born growing up. Another important thing that I learnt was the fact that when babies are born,
they are normally naï...


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