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.