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Children 7/e Book Cover
Children, 7/e
John W. Santrock, University of Texas, Dallas

Physical Development in Infancy

Learning Objectives

By the time you have completed this chapter, you should be able to reach the following goals:

1

Know Piaget's theory of infant development.

2

Evaluate Piaget's theory of infant development.

3

Describe how infants learn and remember.

4

Discuss individual differences in infant intelligence.

5

Evaluate early environmental influences on cognitive development.

6

Understand what language is and how it develops.

7

Describe the biological and behavioral/environmental aspects of language.