My Development
Body Growth & Nutrition
Infancy and Toddlerhood are the time for greatest growth. In the first year the average child's height is 50% greater than at birth and by 2 years is 75% greater (average heigh around 36 inches). During infancy and toddlerhood the head develops more rapidly than the lower part of the body
Breastfeeding: The World Health Organization recommends breastfeeding until the age of 2 with solid foods added at 6 months.
(Berk, 2013, p. 92)
Weight at Birth: 8lbs 1oz. My mother reported that I stayed in the highest percentiles for weight and height for my age during the infancy/toddlerhood stages of development.
Breastfeeding: I was breastfed for approximately 4 months. It is found that working mothers wean their babies from the breast earlier. Although breastfeeding for longer is recommended, it does not hinder the mother-infant relationship nor later emotional adjustment.
(Berk, 2013, p. 101)
Video: To the left is a video of me walking alone for the first time on camera. I began walking for the first time at my babysitters while my parents were at work.
The following are several milestones that could be expected of me during the infacny and toddlerhood stage.
-When held upright, holds head erect and steady: 6 weeks
-Rolls from side to side: 2 months
-Grasps Cube: 3 months, 3 weeks
-Rolls from back to side: 4.5 months
-Sits alone: 7 months
-Crawls: 7 months
-Pulls to stand: 8 months
-Plays pat-a-cake: 9 months, 3 weeks
-Stands alone: 11 months
-Walks alone: 11 months, 3 weeks
-Builds tower of two cubes: 11 months, 3 weeks
-Scribbles vigorously: 14 months
-Walks up stairs with help: 16 months
-Jumps in place: 23 months, 2
(Berk, 2013, p.106 ).
Gross Motor Development: control over actions that help infants get around in the environment.
Fine Motor Development: smaller movements such as reaching and grasping.
According to the dynamic systems theory of motor development, mastery of motor skills involves acquiring increasingly complex systems of action. When motor skills work as a system, separate abilities blend together, each cooperating with others to produce more effective ways of exploring an controlling the environment.
(Berk, 2013, p.106-107 ).
My Development
Physical Development
My Development
Babies are capable of two basic forms of learning: classical and operant conditioning. They also learn through their natural preference for novel stimulation. Finally, shortly after birth babies learn by observing others; they can imitate the facial expressions and gestures of adults.
(Berk, 2013, p. 103).
Although I don't have specific examples of how I was classically or operantly conditioned, the following are examples of ways
Classical Conditioning Example: Unconditioned stimulus=breast milk, unconditioned response= sucking, neutral stimulus hearing my mother’s keys on the table when she came home. The conditioned stimulus would be the keys and the conditioned response would be sucking.
Operant Conditioning Example: Sweet breast milk reinforces continued sucking. Sour breast milk is a punishment and stops the sucking response.
I also learned through habituation and imitation.
(Berk, 2013, p. 103-104)
Gross & Fine Motor Skills
Learning Capacities
Infancy & Toddlerhood
