How Your Baby Learns Cause and Effect

One of the most important cognitive skills your baby develops is the understanding of cause and effect.
This ability allows the brain to predict what happens next.

At first, learning is very simple.
A movement leads to a sensation. A sound leads to a response. A signal leads to contact.

During pregnancy, this learning already begins.
Changes in your movement or emotional state create responses in your baby’s body. Over time, these responses become more organized.

After birth, cause and effect learning accelerates.
When your baby cries and someone comes, a basic rule forms. When they shake something and it makes a sound, another rule appears.

These experiences build the foundation for problem solving, memory and later reasoning.
They also shape emotional expectations. The baby learns whether actions matter and whether the world responds.

Consistency does not limit learning.
It makes learning possible.

Download the HiMommy app to follow how your baby’s understanding of the world develops from the earliest stages, with science based explanations adapted to each age.

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