Week 3: post 2

As I was reading this chapter, I was amazed by how smart babies actually are. I am not sure if this is because I have never really interacted with babies or children, but I became really fascinated in infants'/children's' cognitive developments as explained throughout the chapter. I am the youngest in my immediate family, none of my cousins nearby have children, my sister does not have children, and none of my friends have kids so I have never really had the chance to interact with babies. The main interaction I get is at the hospital when patients family bring their kids in. The chapter explained how children start to understand their own reflexes, then interact with other people, and then become "little scientists." At work, sometimes people tell me what their kids have gotten themselves into and a story that stands out in my mind is the one where my coworkers daughter who is 2 years old decided to play with body wash by dumping the entire bottle and then eat some of it. I guess her daughter was experimenting with the colorful soap and since it smells so nice, she wanted to see what it tasted like. Now, the soap was nontoxic and my coworkers daughter is fine, but her age and her actions line up perfectly with stage 5 of the tertiary circular reactions. 

This chapter has made me become more interested in psychology because I had never learned about the early years before, I had just learned about adults in my prior classes. I was excited to read the material we had to this week, for the purpose of understanding why children do what they do.