4.1: Infancy - What Will You Learn?

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After reading "Infancy" you should be able to:

Summarize overall physical growth during infancy
Describe the growth of the brain during infancy.
Discuss how we know what the newborn knows.
Contrast development of the senses in newborns.
Compare gross and fine motor skills and give examples of each.
Explain the merits of breastfeeding.
Describe the characteristics of Piaget's sensorimotor stage.
Describe stages of language development during infancy.
Define babbling, holophrasic speech, and overregularization.
Contrast styles of attachment.
Discuss the importance of temperament and goodness of fit.
Describe self-awareness, stranger wariness, and separation anxiety.
Use Erikson’s theory to characterize psychosocial development during infancy.

A smiling baby sits in front of a toy computer.

Figure 4.1.1 (Unsplash license: Mahmud Ahsan via Unsplash)