SD - Phase 3

Question 1

What is the alternate name for phase 3?

Answer 1

Topic based relatedness

Question 2

At what age does phase 3 occur?

Answer 2

5 months

Question 3

What improvements occur in infants at this phase?

Answer 3

Improvements in vision and expanding field of interest but a decline in eye contact. Now with social skills, their experience starts leaving the boundaries of core relatedness

Question 4

What changes occur to the parents in phase 3?

Answer 4

Adjust to engage with infant via body games, object and triadic play and using ostensive marking

Question 5

How do interactions between infant and parent change?

Answer 5

They go from being purely about communication to being a third topic

Question 6

What can the infant still not do in this phase?

Answer 6

Cannot directly acknowledge the link between their partners, the topic and their own experience e.g reaching for a teddy but don’t look to partner to get it if it is out of reach