Infancy and Childhood

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  • Reflex abilities- See, Hear, Smell, and Respond to environment

    These reflexes allow the infant to adapt to the new world around them. A baby comes from a protected environment to one where they are "assaulted" by lights, sounds, touches, and extremes of temperature.
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    1st year

  • Reflex abilities- grasping reflex

    Reflexes such as grasping can be triggered by the right stimulus. Grasping is a response to touch, such as a palm of the hand. When babies grab a finger that is a reflex, they also grab fingers with strength.

  • Reflex Abilities- Rooting Reflex

    If an infants is touched around the mouth they instantly lean toward the source. One of the most complex reflectes an infant has is being able to suck, breath air, and swallow milk twice a second without getting confused.

  • Perceptual development- Perception Skills

    Infants prefer to at human faces, such as the parents and family, as well as patterned materials more so than other views.

  • Physical development- Raising head

    At 2 months and infants is able to lift their head at 45 degrees while laying on their stomachs.

  • Perceptual development- Depth Perception

    At 6 months of life infants gain a sense of the world: dangers, good things. So in an illusion of a cliff like dropout the 6 month old understands not to go over it due to experiences and a learning process, more so than an infant younger than 6 months.

  • Physical development- sitting up

    At 5.5 months an infants is able to sit up without the support of an older individual.

  • Physical development- The process before walking

    At 9.2 months a baby will start to walk while holding onto furniture, but is still not quite ready to walk until 3 more months.

  • Physical Development- Crawling

    At 10 months a baby is able to crawl/creep around on their own even though a months ago they were walking with an object.

  • Physical developments- Walking

    At a year and infant is able to finally walk all by themselves and then begins the adventure

  • Language development- 1st year

    An infants at age one begins to babble, and masters the sound of their own language. They even say their first word

  • Language development- 1st year

    An infants at age one begins to babble, and masters the sound of their own language. They even say their first word

  • Language development- 2 years

    At 2 years old a child can say dozens of words, and begins to use them in pairs.

  • Language development- 4 years

    At age 4 the child uses more grammatical rules and future tense. Has a vocabulary of 9,000 words, and asks questions like adults

  • Language developement- 5 years

    At age 5 a child uses complex clauses, creates sense aces with more than one idea but has problems with noun/verb agreement