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A 3 page review of some of the new findings in early infant development. This article outlines the major milestones in infant emotional development. No additional sources are listed.
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Researchers have been fascinated with
the way infants and young children think for centuries. Recently, however, new insight has been found on the topic. A 2005 Newsweek article, an article written by authors
Pat Wingert and Martha Brant, outlines some of the major inroads being made by researchers at the Human Sciences lab at Texas Tech University. Some of these findings contradict
previous beliefs that infants were incapable of expressing higher emotions until they were toddlers. Much has changed in child psychology even
in the last several decades. Early child psychologists saw infants as: "simple-minded creatures who
merely mimicked those around them and grasped only the most basic emotions-happy, sad, angry" (Wingert and Brant, 2005).
The credit for this line of thought goes largely to William James, a prominent psychologists of the latter nineteenth century who perpetuated the notion that
infant thought was simplistic at best. New research, research such as that being conducted at Texas Tech, demonstrates just the opposite. Indeed, infants are capable of quite complicated
thought. When an infant is presented with a potential competitor for their mothers attention they react with obvious jealousy. When
another child is crying they empathize by crying as well. Not only are infants capable of higher emotion such as empathy and jealousy, they have the ability to visually
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