Infants' Cognitive Abilities

Definition

Refers to the mental processes such as perception, attention, memory, language development, problem-solving that infants possess during their early stages of life.

Related terms

Object Permanence:

The understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen or heard.

Sensorimotor Stage:

The first stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development where infants learn about the world through their senses and motor actions.

Babbling:

Early stage of language development where infants produce repetitive consonant-vowel sounds.