1. The First Two Years: Cognitive Development
Part II
Chapter Six
The First Two Years: Cognitive Development
Sensorimotor Intelligence
Information Processing
Language: What Develops in the First Two Years?

2. Sensorimotor Intelligence
Stages One and Two: Primary Circular Reactions
Stages Three and Four: Secondary Circular Reactions
New Directions
Object Permanence

3. Sensorimotor Intelligence
A VIEW FROM SCIENCE: Object Permanence Revisited
Stages Five and Six: Tertiary Circular Reactions
Piaget and Modern Research
Boredom as a Research Method
Measuring the Brain

4. Information Processing
Affordances
Research on Early Affordances
Sudden Drops
Movement and People

5. Information Processing
Memory
Reminders and Repetition
A Little Older, a Little More Memory
Aspects of Memory

6. Language: What Develops in the First Two Years?
The Universal Sequence
Listening and Responding
Babbling
First Words
Gradual Beginnings
The Naming Explosion

7. Language: What Develops in the First Two Years?
Cultural Differences
Parts of Speech
Putting Words Together

8. Language: What Develops in the First Two Years?
Theories of Language Learning
Theory One: Infants Need to Be Taught
Theory Two: Social Impulses Foster Infant Language
Theory Three: Infants Teach Themselves
A Hybrid Theory