Overview

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Course: Lifespan Growth & Development (PSYC2314) DUAL CREDIT
Book: Overview
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Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2025, 3:38 AM

Description


Infancy and Toddlerhood Overview

In this topic, we will explore Infancy and Toddlerhood.  Infancy and Toddlerhood involve significant physical, cognitive, social, and socioemotional development.  During the first two years of life rapid changes occur.  This period of the lifespan is arguably the most well researched phase in the lifespan.  


Learning Aims

  • Summarize overall physical growth during infancy
  • Describe the growth of the brain during infancy 
  • Explain infant sleep
  •  Identify newborn reflexes 
  • Compare gross and fine motor skills
  •  Contrast development of the senses in newborns
  • Describe the habituation procedure 
  • Explain the merits of breastfeeding and when to introduce more solid foods
  •  Discuss the nutritional concerns of marasmus and kwashiorkor
  • Compare the Piagetian concepts of schema, assimilation, and accommodation 
  • List and describe the six substages of sensorimotor intelligence 
  • Describe the characteristics of infant memory 
  • Describe components and developmental progression of language 
  •  Identify and compare the theories of language
  • Identify styles of temperament and explore goodness-of-fit 
  • Describe infant emotions, self-awareness, stranger wariness, and separation anxiety 
  • Describe the early theories of attachment 
  • Contrast styles of attachment according to the Strange Situation Technique
  •  Explain the factors that influence attachment 
  • Use Erikson’s theory to characterize psychosocial development during infancy