INFANCY

Individual Assignment: Summarize overall physical growth patterns during infancy. Describe the growth of the brain during infancy. Explain gross and fine motor skills in infants. Explain newborn perceptual abilities. Explain the merits of breastfeeding. Discuss the importance of nutrition to early physical growth, including nutritional concerns for infants and toddlers such as marasmus and kwashiorkor. Describe sleep concerns for infants. Explain the vaccination debate and its consequences. Describe each of Piagets theories and stages of sensorimotor intelligence. Explain learning and memory abilities in infants and toddlers. Describe stages of language development during infancy. Explain the procedure, results, and implications of Hamlin and Wynns research on moral reasoning in infants. Describe emotional development and self-awareness during infancy. Contrast styles of attachment. Describe temperament and the goodness-of-fit model. Use Eriksons theory to characterize psychosocial development during infancy.