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2-Analyze Devleopment of Infants and Toddlers Conception To Three Years
2-Analyze Devleopment of Infants and Toddlers Conception To Three Years
By the time a baby is born they have 100 billion nerve cells. I learned from Chapter
5 of Children that infants develop through cephalocaudal patterns. Cephalocaudal
patterns is the sequence in which the earliest growth always occurs at the top,
which is the head, with physical growth and features differentiations gradually
working from top to bottom. The infants brain develops at a fast rate. By the age of
three the brain is already 80% developed. Neurons change in two significant ways in
the first years of life. Myelination begins prenatally and continues after birth into
adolescence, and connectivity among neurons increases which creates new neural
pathways. Heredity and the environment are thought to influence the timing and
course of synaptic overproduction and retraction. I learned from Chapter 5 of
Children what wires the brain is repeated experiences. An infants brain depends
on experiences to determine how connections are made. Infants must practice
something in the environment that motivates them to act and use the perception to
fine tune their movements. An infant develops motor skills for processing and
acting. Motor skills represent solutions to an infants goals. According to Dynamic
Systems Theory, nature and nurture, the infant and the environment all work
together as part of the ever changing system. Motor development begins with
reflexes. Reflexes allows infants to respond adaptively to their environments before
they have the opportunity to learn. Movements involved in some reflexes eventually
becomes incorporated into more complex, voluntary actions. The timing of
developmental milestones in the first year can modify the onset of
accomplishments. Infants develop new skills with the guidance of their caregivers in
real world environments of objects, surfaces, and planes. When caregivers provide
babies with physical guidance by physically handling them in special ways, or by
giving opportunities for exercise, infants reach milestone earlier. The onset of
reaching and grasping makes significant achievement in an infants ability to
interact with their surroundings. Infants define grasping by developing palmer grasp
and pincher grip. Vision lets an infant pre-shape their hands as they grasp an object.
Information to an infant comes through their senses. Sensation occurs when
information interacts with sensory receptors. Perception is designed for action. In
visual perception, faces are the most important stimuli in childrens social
environment. Infants show an interest in human faces from birth. Actions educate
perceptions. The developmental domains of a young child are physical, social,
emotional, cognitive, and sensorimotor development. I learned from the power
points that looking, talking, and facial expressions help children recognize their
caregivers. I learned from Discussion Board #4 that according to Piagets Theory,
all children develop cognitive abilities such as language in four stages. In the first
stage, the sensorimotor stage, the emphasis is on movement and physical
reactions. At the early stages language skills are basically physical. Children in the
early stages learn by physical movements and experiences. Infants develop
language by interacting and talking. I learned from the Ted Talks What do babies
think that how babies learn compared to how their childhood is dependent on:
1) How long childhood lasts