Anyone that has been around babies know that you might want to be careful with what you do and say because baby is watching. Researchers have looked at this learning process in babies to see how they actually begin to learn. It turns out that babies brains are set up like a somatotopic map. This somatotopic mapping works by a baby watching a person touch something with a body part and the portion of the babies brain that corresponds to that same body part will record the action. So it is true what they say, babies really do learn their actions from the people they are around.
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131030185149.htm
I think this topic is interesting. I would have to wholeheartedly agree with this research only because I've learned from experience. My niece who is now 7 years old totally learned a lot of my habits that I was teaching her without noticing. I would later ask my sister, "where did she get that from?!" Her reply, "from you!". So yes, it all starts when we have little children even babies, learning to talk, repeat after us or make faces at them in hopes they'll do it back.
ReplyDeleteOf course it was not when I was a baby but when I was younger I wanted to be like the grown ups, so I would do what they do. I wonder at what age our minds start to learn on our own or do we all watch how others are and learn from that still through out our life.
ReplyDeleteThis is so true! My nephew always would pick up on things we said to him as a baby. We would always tell him he was just like Rachele (his mom) and then he started calling her Rachele instead of Momma! And that's also how we teach kids things that they need to learn anyway, so this makes complete sense!
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