Quotes About Infancy

The three volumes on infancy focus on different aspects of infants' cognitive development. Whereas OI examines the coordination and differentiation of sensorimotor schemes of practical intelligence, CR studies how practical intelligence constructs the concepts of object, space, causality, and time. PDI, in turn, is mainly devoted to the emergence of symbols in the context of the development of imitation and play.

For Piaget, psychological life begins with the use of hereditary reflexes (OI, pp. 39, 223). Reflexes are general action patterns such as sucking, looking, and touching (Piaget, 1975/1985, p. 69). Each reflex constitutes an "organized totality" (OI, p. 38) that comprises perceptions, coordinated movements, and a need; it is not just a "summation of movements" (OI, p. 38).

Piaget termed this action logic sensorimotor intelligence, and the three volumes on infancy "form one entity dedicated to the beginnings of intelligence, that is to say, to the various manifestations of sensorimotor intelligence and to the most elementary forms of expression" (OI, p. ix).

However, the construction of the social world does not receive the same level of attention in Piaget's work on infancy as the construction of the physical world.

Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.

He did not recognize himself either. He was a totally new being, bald, covered with grease and blood, pink and blue eyed: he was his own baby...He was a great fat chuckling baby, and he shat and peed in his filthy trousers and kept driving.

The influence and power of the press is only dawning," said Finot. "Journalism is in its infancy; it will grow. In ten years' time, everything will be brought into publicity. The light of thought will be turned on all subjects, and — — " "The blight of thought will be over it all," corrected Blondet.

Whatever she had started started small.

At the beginning these two things, the real and the imaginative life, are one and the same thing, because the infant at the beginning does not perceive objectively, but lives in a subjective state, being the creator of all. Gradually, in health the infant becomes able to perceive a world that is a not-me world, and to attain this state the infant must be cared for well enough at the time of absolute dependence.

The responses of the baby monkey are very similar to those of a human baby.

I have videos of me playing basketball in diapers.

From a psychoanalytical point of view, we start discovering the world through our mouths in the very first stage of our lives, when we're just born.

David Spellman was born perfect. Eight pounds even, with a full head of hair and unblemished skin, he cried for a brief moment right after his birth (to let the doctor know he was breathing), then stopped abruptly, probably out of politeness.

When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep,eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning -- how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.

For all children, mothers are their first love, their first acquaintance with intimacy, touch, warmth, tenderness, sustenance. Infancy is a conspiracy between mothers and their babies, a bond that fathers can only helplessly witness, denied the profound pleasure and pain of giving birth.

My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness.

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. – Owen Barfield

En mis primeros recuerdos aparece el fuego.

Ich aber konnte überhaupt keine Schuld in dem Kind entdecken, seit es nicht mehr so wehrlos und stumm wie in den ersten Wochen war. Und damals war es wohl nicht unschuldig, sondern nur unfähig zu einer Äußerung gewesen, ein Bündel auf feinem Fleisch und Flachs, mit dünnem Atem, mit einem riesigen dumpfen Kopf, der wie ein Blitzableiter die Botschaften der Welt entschärfte.

The lawn mower attends with defeaning shudder to the tonsure; a light odor of fresh hay intoxicates the air; the leveled grass finds again a bristling infancy; but the bite of the blades reveals unevenness, mangy clearings, yellow patches.

Children's penchant for music seems to begin in infancy. By seven months, infants can remember music for as long as two weeks and can distinguish particular strains of Mozart they've heard versus very similar ones they haven't, suggesting an innate—and evolutionary—basis for music perception and memory.

In terms of development, very young children are right-hemisphere dominant, especially during their first three years.

Humans, having the most complex brains and intricate society, have the most prolonged period of total dependency of any species (Cacioppo & Berntson, 2002). Compared with the young of other primates, human babies are born quite early relative to the maturity of their brains. In fact, the first 3 months of life have sometimes been referred to as the fourth trimester. If we followed the pattern typical for other primates, we would stay inside our mothers for 24 months (Gould

he'd done it as an infant.