When adults come into contact with infants, the adult often changes their persona (and communicates in a way they wouldn't with other adults) in order...

newborn) is an infant in the first 28 days after birth (the term applies to premature, full term, and postmature infants). Infants born prior to 37...

positive relationship with their infants. The younger the child, the more exaggerated the adult's CDS is. The attention of infants is held more readily...

and/or speaking infants babble with their mouths, infants who grow up with a sign language babble with their hands. If a hearing infant has deaf and/or...

found that infants of six months were better at distinguishing facial information of both humans and monkeys than older infants and adults. They found...

"Figuratively speaking, infants become interested in the external world because it has been presented to them by loved adults." Infants accept adults as mediators...

in conjunction with a word which allows greater communication for infants. Writing on the topic, Jane Collingwood states that "Infants from about six...

Parasocial interaction (PSI) refers to a kind of psychological relationship experienced by an audience in their mediated encounters with performers in...

between infants and their primary caregivers. Developed by psychiatrist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby (1907–90), the theory posits that infants need to...

their lives. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to include adolescence, adult development, aging, and the entire...

discovered that infants took many more trials and days to learn the task if they learned from birth than the infants who learned later. Infants need stimulation...

emotional development, often between infants and caregivers. It has also been studied in adult interpersonal interactions, with an emphasis on close, romantic...

caregiver—can also be predicted from mother-infant interaction at four-months. According to Beebe, the infants on their way to a disorganized attachment...

assessments for an adult patient would not be appropriate for infants, the Glasgow Coma Scale was modified slightly to form the PGCS. As with the GCS, the PGCS...

extended to adult relationships in the late 1980s. The working models of children found in Bowlby's attachment theory form a pattern of interaction that is...

as adult baby (or "AB", for short), is a form of ageplay that involves role-playing a regression to an infant-like state. Like other forms of adult play...

estimated to be 35 out of 100,000 infants, 65% of these infants have significant neurological disabilities, and 5 to 35% of infants die as a result of sustained...

especially phoneme distinction, is heavily reliant on infants' social interaction with the adults in their environment; this is referred to as the "social...

are seen as cute for the physical attraction that female infants display more than male infants, whereas research by Karraker (1990) demonstrates that a...

"3-month-old infants are comparatively insensitive to being the object of another's visual regard". A 1996 Canadian study with 3- to 6-month-old infants found...

conducting psychological research on infants and children, certain key aspects need to be considered. These include that infants cannot talk, have a limited behavioral...

to an affiliative interaction. Additionally, females without infants may be allowed access to handling an unrelated mothers infant after initiating friendly...

found that infants' rhythm was stronger and interactions were led better at 5 months than at 3 months. According to the study, an infant's ability to...

effective communication, interaction and learning. He applied intersubjectivity to the very rapid cultural development of new born infants. and used the term...

higher during the cold winter months, causing bronchiolitis in infants, common colds in adults, and more serious respiratory illnesses, such as pneumonia...

PKU affects approximately 1 out of every 15,000 infants in the U.S. However, most affected infants do not grow up impaired because of a standard screening...

avoidant infants show little distress upon separation and ignore the caregiver when they return. They explore little when the parent is present. Infants also...

Infants in the watch, wait and wonder group were significantly more likely to shift to a secure or organised attachment classification than infants in...

(June 1993). "Interactions between thermoregulation and the control of respiration in infants: possible relationship to sudden infant death". Acta Paediatrica...

towards meaningful speech as infants grow and produce their first words around the age of one year. In early word learning, infants build their vocabulary slowly...