Connectionism and development psychology
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The artificial neural networks or the connectionist model of development provide important clues to the nature of mechanisms underlying development in infants and young children. The equilibration of processes of accommodation and assimilation leads to the modelling stages of development. The model provides insight into the lexical development, acquisition of syntax and developmental disorders in children. The critical periods of learning vary according to the individual differences. The model's limitation pertain to one-trial learning, task definition and biological plausibility.
Publication Name: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-9630
Year: 1997
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Psychopathology in infancy
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The study of psychopathology entails specificity of risk and outcome variables, measurement difficulties, rapid developmental changes and the centrality of the relationship context in early childhood. Various approaches to the validation of infancy disorders exist. The research on the psychopathological variants of emotion regulation include, the study of high-risk group, infants of depressed mothers, clinically disordered group and infants with regulatory disorders. The disorders related to attachment in infants are discussed.
Publication Name: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-9630
Year: 1997
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The extraordinary cognitive journey from feotus through infancy
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Cognitive development is very much a part of the intrauterine growth of a child. Evidence indicates that a fetus during the final trimester in the womb begins to identify invariant patterns across the complex auditory signals filtered through the amniotic fluid. The period of development from fetus to infancy is marked by the child's extraordinary capacity to learn. New discoveries in infant 'knowledge' are discussed, with particular focus on infantile ability to process auditory, visual and cross-modal messages.
Publication Name: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-9630
Year: 1995
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