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Understanding Infants

• Created By
• Paola Andrea Montoya

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Objectives

• Identify and define reflexes
• Identify signs
• Describe the sensorimotor period
• Three types of temperament

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Chapter Vocabulary

• Attachment Behavior
• Bonding
• Egocentric
• Eye-hand coordination
• Infancy

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Vocabulary continuation

• Nature
• Object permanence
• Perceptual motor skills
• Reflexes
• Sensorimotor period

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Vocabulary continuation

• Stranger anxiety
• Temperament
• Vocalization

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Amazing First Year

• Crying newborn to an active one-year-old.
• Occurs in twelve months
• Remarkable changes that take place make up the
  most concentrated period

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Physical Development

• Growth and development require energy
• Heads grow very rapidly
• Teeth begin to appear at six months

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Presence of Reflexes

• Reflexes function for the first month
• Startle reflex
• Rooting reflex
• Grasping reflex
• Babinski reflex

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Sensory Development

• Equipped with all senses
• See
• Hear
• Taste
• Feel
• And Smell

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Sensory development

• Distinguish voices
• Vision not clear
• Sense difference in taste
• Recognize scent
• Feel difference in texture

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Motor development

• Dependent on others
• Muscular development give mobility
• Influenced by other types of growth
• Curiosity helps to be more mobile

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More Motor Development

• Physically and intellectually, acquiring
  perceptual motor skills
• Eye-hand coordination

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Sensorimotor development

• Two months- lifts head
• Four months- sits erect in adult arms
• Six months- grasp objects rolls over
• Eight months- pulls self up
• Ten months- Crawls
• Twelve months- Stands

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Jean Piaget website

• http//www.ship.edu/cgboeree/piaget.html

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Intellectual Development

• Sensorimotor period describe time frame
• The Role of language is a large role for
  developing intellectual abilities
• At nine months acquire object permanence

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Stages of Sensorimotor Period

• 1- Birth to 1 months-
• Inborn reflexes
• 2- one to four months-
• hand-mouth coordination
• 3- four to eight months-
• eye-hand coordination

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Stages of Sensorimotor Period

• 4- Eight to twelve months-
• imitates others
• 5- Twelve to Eighteen months-
• finds hidden objects
• 6- Eighteen to twenty-four months- Thinks using
  symbols

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Emotional Development

• Experience emotions
• Bonding
• Personality begins
• Trust development
• Identifying temperaments

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Social Development

• Arent capable of relationships
• Social experiences
• Stranger Anxiety

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Taking Time to Nurture

• Development during first year
• Many challenges
• Developmental problems

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Paolas Quiz Website

• http//school.discovery.com/quizzes24/andrea1207/C
  h4Vocabulary.html
• Password Chiripa