DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD
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one year
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two months
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birth
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six months
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Detailed explanation-1: -Between 3 and 9 months of age, infants gradually focus their attention on faces.
Detailed explanation-2: -Thus, children show preferential attention to faces between 3 and 14 months of age.
Detailed explanation-3: -As babies grow, eyesight improves. By the end of 3 months, they can follow a moving object, are more interested in shapes and patterns, and can spot familiar faces, even at a distance. Human faces are one of their favorite things to look at, especially their own or a parent’s face.
Detailed explanation-4: -The results show that, from birth, human infants prefer to look at faces that engage them in mutual gaze and that, from an early age, healthy babies show enhanced neural processing of direct gaze.
Detailed explanation-5: -One week after birth the baby can see colors and can see about 8-10 inches away. At six weeks of age baby can see about 12 inches away. You can help your infant’s vision by holding and feeding him or her on each side, left and right (Picture 1). Place your baby in the crib facing different ways to see different views.