Physical
Development
Development
Newborns learn through these involuntary responses.
What are reflexes?
This theorist looked at intellectual development and first described the fixed order it happens in.
Who is Piaget?
This temperament describes an infant who adapts to change easily, is interested and responsive.
What is an easygoing temperament?
A child less than 1 year of age.
What is an infant?
In infant's brain gains weight by doing this.
What is becoming more complex?
Skills that require the use of muscles in the hands and fingers.
What are fine motor skills?
These sounds are the first ones imitated by infants.
What are vowel sounds?
The process of learning to recognize and express feelings.
What is emotional development?
This is an increase in size or weight.
What is growth?
These require the use and control of muscles.
What are motor skills?
These foods help foster independence in infants.
What are finger foods?
In regards to language development, this happens before the ability to use the language.
What is understanding?
An infant's fear of unfamiliar people.
What is stranger anxiety?
Things that most children can do by a certain age.
What is a milestone?
Before eye-hand coordination develops, infant's use these broad swipes when reaching for objects.
What is raking?
Using the whole hand to grab an object.
What is the mitten grasp?
The only tasks an infant's brain is capable of performing, such as regulating heartbeat and controlling reflexes.
What are maintenance tasks?
This emotional accomplishment allows an infant to recognize those who care for them most.
What is forming an attachment?
During the first year of life, an infants weight does this.
What is triples?
This is the phasing out of breast or bottle feeding.
What is weaning?
An infant's ability to swallow depends on this reflex disappearing.
What is the tongue-protrusion reflex?
Attaining this milestone allows an infant to understand that things out of sight still exist.
What is object permanence?
This condition caused by unmet social and emotional needs causes an infant to lose interest in the world.
What is failure to thrive?
These are generalizations about development which happen in all babies, no matter where they're born.
What are principles of development?
In infant's, feelings are linked to these. Examples include hunger and discomfort.
What are physical sensations?