Human Growth and Development / Unit 4 HGD 0478 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Joint Attention
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The idea
Joint attention is an infant and a partner attending to the same object or experience together, a basis of social cognition.
In practice
A baby following a parent's gaze to a dog, then looking back to share it.
Where people slip
In one study, sustained attention during play, not joint attention, predicted later vocabulary. Children with autism often show poorer joint attention.
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