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Infant Observation Paper

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The Physical development of infants and toddlers are basically described as the exploration and refining of their bodies and using motor control that they have not developed yet. Infants motor control is mostly gross motor and not very coordinated such as crawling or standing and walking (Berk, 2016). A toddler has probably developed their motor gross skills and at their age is adjusting their fine motor skills such as grasping and using certain hand movements for tasks. Other than the gross and fine motor skill development reflexes are also accounted for physical development which are the inborn reactions that the body has such as the eye blinking that develops to protect infants from strong stimulation. The infants I observed were in the gross motor skills of crawling and standing and working on the fine motor skill of grasping, they would also suck on their fingers and study them. Both the infants are on the right development …show more content…

Piaget believed that the sensorimotor stage was in the two first years of life and that the child thinks with their senses using their eyes, ears, and hands (Berk, 2016). The infant I observed studied the toys she held feeling them with her hands pressing buttons and making chimes with the train. The infants and toddler that I observed had a great amount of cognitive development examples while watching the boy.
The infants both had a good concept of the world around them and seemed to enjoy exploring it. The first infant I observed seemed to be able to respond to the workers cues such as placing a toy phone on her ear knowing where it goes. The ten-month-old would also pretend the baby doll was a real baby placing it on the pillow like she was laying it down for a nap. I had to switch infants because she didn’t show up the second time but the other infant I observed was almost the same

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