How teaching your baby this skill could help them later in life, both academically and emotionally
A change in our behavior in response to a changing environmental situation is what psychologists call cognitive flexibilityToys with multiple ways of playing seem to prime infants to adapt their thinking and behavior to a changing environment.Imagine you are on your daily commute that involves a few miles on the freeway. You see signs of traffic on the entry to the freeway, and you take a different route that still gets you to work on time.
Recent research has demonstrated that infants can be cognitively flexible. In a, researchers conducted a task in which 12-month-old infants were first rewarded for looking towards one side of a screen. They subsequently shifted to rewarding infants only if they looked at the opposite side of the screen. Infants were observed to quickly inhibit the originally rewarded response and demonstrate the novel response of looking towards the opposite side of the screen.
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