Infants and Toddlers

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the size and proportion of an infant's body, including how they change during the first two years and how they compare with those of an adult.
2. Describe the basic pattern of motor skill development, distinguish between gross motor and fine motor skills.
3. Explain what object permanence is.
4. Identify and describe Piaget's 6 stages of sensorimotor development
5. Describe language development during infancy.
6. Describew the main developments in the emotional development of the child between 6 months and 2 years.
7. Describe Freud and Erikson's stages of infant development.
8. Describe attachment and synchrony.

Fathers and Infants

Psychosocial Development

Freud--Psychosexual stages

• Oral
• Anal

Erikson--Psychosocial stages

• Trust vs. Mistrust
• Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt
• Regression in adulthood

Synchrony

Attachment

"Ghosts from the Nursery"

Infants have Emotions Also!

• Ph.D.
• Psy.D.
• M.D.

Dr. Tiffany Field

Biosocial Development

Growth

Denver Developmental Screening Test

• Cruising and Toddling
• Eating and Drinking

Cognitive Development

Piaget Sensorimotor stages

Object permanence

Using objects as means -ends

Language

Imiting Sounds and Actions

Skinner

Chomsky