Infancy (0-2 years)
Infancy is the first stage of life. During this stage, you are acquiring everyday motor skills through the use of your senses and actions, social behaviors with different individuals, and knowledge of objects and their existence. Listed below are some characteristics infants go through in this stage.
Object Permanence (Age: 8 months)
Object permanence is defined as "the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived." As in, an infant will continue to look at a toy covered by a blanket because they know it is still there. Piaget assumed that infants before the age of 2 couldn't think. Today further research has proven that they can recognize objects and try to manipulate or look at it. (Picture:http://www.simplypsychology.org/sensorimotor.html)
Object permanence is defined as "the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived." As in, an infant will continue to look at a toy covered by a blanket because they know it is still there. Piaget assumed that infants before the age of 2 couldn't think. Today further research has proven that they can recognize objects and try to manipulate or look at it. (Picture:http://www.simplypsychology.org/sensorimotor.html)
Stranger Anxiety (Age: 8 months)
Stranger anxiety is defined as "the fear of strangers that infants commonly display." After an infant develops object permanence, they start to fear strangers. They start developing memories of people's faces. If they don't remember the person in front of them, then they become upset.
(Picture:http://blog.lib.umn.edu/huber195/psy1001spring12/2012/04/stranger-anxiety.html)
Stranger anxiety is defined as "the fear of strangers that infants commonly display." After an infant develops object permanence, they start to fear strangers. They start developing memories of people's faces. If they don't remember the person in front of them, then they become upset.
(Picture:http://blog.lib.umn.edu/huber195/psy1001spring12/2012/04/stranger-anxiety.html)
Sitting Up (Age: 5 months)
As an infant's brain starts to go through maturation, it starts to gain motor coordination. Maturation means "biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience. All infants go through motor coordination stages. They just might be at different times. Infants will sit up whenever they gain muscle in their upper body.
(Picture:http://www.laptopstolullabies.com/2010/11/sitting-up.html)
As an infant's brain starts to go through maturation, it starts to gain motor coordination. Maturation means "biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience. All infants go through motor coordination stages. They just might be at different times. Infants will sit up whenever they gain muscle in their upper body.
(Picture:http://www.laptopstolullabies.com/2010/11/sitting-up.html)
Crawling (Age: 6-10 months)
Infants will begin to crawl after they have learned to sit up and as their brain matures. This is apart of maturation (see "Sitting Up" for definition).
(Picture:http://www.bambibaby.com/stages-of-development)
Infants will begin to crawl after they have learned to sit up and as their brain matures. This is apart of maturation (see "Sitting Up" for definition).
(Picture:http://www.bambibaby.com/stages-of-development)
Walking (Age: 12-15 months)
After an infant has learned to sit up and crawl and the brain develops (see "Sitting Up" for definition), a baby will start to attempt to walk. Infants will need some a assistance at first, but they will eventually gain the strength in their legs to move on their own.
(Picture:http://www.naptimetales.com/2012/11/child-proofing-for-your-little-walker.html)
After an infant has learned to sit up and crawl and the brain develops (see "Sitting Up" for definition), a baby will start to attempt to walk. Infants will need some a assistance at first, but they will eventually gain the strength in their legs to move on their own.
(Picture:http://www.naptimetales.com/2012/11/child-proofing-for-your-little-walker.html)