Overview
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