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.
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