Discussion 6 | Week 11 | Cookie It was a bright fall day, and 1-year-old Mari sat in a highchair as her father mashed an avocado while making her lunch. As Mari watched attentively, she suddenly said, quite clearly, "cookie." No matter that she misidentified the avocado. Or maybe not-perhaps she was asking for a cookie? Although her motivation for the use of the word wasn't totally obvious, what was clear was that "cookie" was Mari's first word. Her father took out his iPhone and tried to get her to repeat the word, to no avail. It wouldn't be for another 2 days before Mari repeated "cookie," this time correctly using it when eating a cookie. And it wasn't long before other words emerged. Mari was learning to speak! How might child developmentalists from the behavioral and evolutionary perspectives explain Mari's emerging use of language?

Mira’s first word was Cookie, which she used to address the avocado. The child of 1 year old starts expressing himself by using gestures and sometimes small words as Mira did. She was expressing her wish to eat a cookie by saying that word (UNICEF). The developmentalist would explain Mira’s emerging use of language as a good sign of language and behavioural development, wherein Mira expressed herself. She used a word to communicate to her father that she wants to eat a cookie. Her expression is also evident from the fact that she did not repeat the word for two days till the time she ate a cookie.

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Discussion 6 | Week 11 | Cookie It was a bright fall day, and 1-year-old Mari sat in a highchair as her father mashed an avocado while making her lunch. As Mari watched attentively, she suddenly said, quite clearly, "cookie." No matter that she misidentified the avocado. Or maybe not-perhaps she was asking for a cooki