Infancy Physical Growth The brain Infant states Nutrition Motor development Sensory and perceptual development Piaget’s theory Learning Intelligence Language.

Infancy• Physical Growth• The brain• Infant states• Nutrition• Motor development• Sensory and perceptual

development• Piaget’s theory• Learning

• Intelligence• Language• Emotional developmt.• Temperament• Personality• Attachment• Family• Day care

Physical Growth and Development in Infancy

• Cephalocaudal pattern• Proximodistal pattern• Height and weight

Vaccinations

The Brain

• The Brain’s Development• Measuring the Brain’s Activity in Research

on Infant Memory• The Brain’s Hemispheres• Early Experience and the Brain

Infant States

• Sleep• REM sleep• Classification of Infant States• SIDS

Nutrition

• Nutritional Needs and Eating Behavior• Breast- Versus Bottle-Feeding• Malnutrition in Infancy

Motor Development

• Reflexes• Gross and fine motor skills• Developmental biodynamics• Toilet training

Sensory and Perceptual Development

• What are sensation and perception?• Visual perception• Other senses• Intermodal perception• Perceptual-motor coupling and unification

Piaget’s Theory of Infant Development

• Sensorimotor development• Substages• Object permanence• Evaluating Piaget’s theory

Learning and Remembering

• Conditioning• Imitation• Memory

Intelligence

• Individual differences• Arnold Gesell• The Bayley Scales of Infant Intelligence• The Fagan Test of Infant Intelligence

Language Development

• Defining language• How language develops• Biological influences• Behavior and environmental influences

Reading to Children

Emotional Development

• Defining Emotion• Affect in Parent-Child

Relationships• Developmental

Timetable of Emotions• Crying• Smiling• Stranger Anxiety

Temperament

• Defining and Classifying Temperament

• Goodness of Fit• Parenting and the Child’s

Temperament

Personality Development

• Trust• The Developing Sense of Self• Independence

Attachment

• Phases of Attachment• Studying Attachment• Individual Differences• Caregiving Styles and Attachment

The Family

• The Transition to Parenthood• Reciprocal Socialization• The Family as a System• Maternal and Paternal Infant

Caregiving

Day Care

Far more young children are in day care today than at any other time in history.