When students have studied the material in the
chapter, they will be able to answer the following: - Introduction
- What does it mean to say that newborns are preadapted to their developmental tasks?
- How do infants' capacities foster interactions with the world, including
other people?
- How do limitations on infants' abilities influence what they are able to perceive and learn?
- What practical implications do infants' early abilities and limitations have for parents?
- Early brain development
- How does the brain develop over the first months of life?
- Infant states
- What are the major infant states? Why are they significant?
- How do infants' states and transitions between them change with development?
- Reflexes in the newborn
- What are the major newborn reflexes?
- Which are survival reflexes? Which are later incorporated into voluntary actions?
- Infant learning
- Describe the development of habituation, classical conditioning, operant or instrumental conditioning, and imitative learning.
- Infant motor skills
- Describe the development of controlled eye movements, reaching and grasping, and walking.
- How are reflexes, maturation, and experience involved in infants' motor development?
- Sensing and perceiving the world
- What sensory skills do newborns have? How do they change with development?
- Summarize development of depth perception, size and shape constancy, and face perception.
- First adaptations in context
- How do biology and environment each contribute to infants' first adaptations?
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