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Physical Growth
Infants grow rapidly in size and change in shape during their first year.
Musculoskeletal System
Develops to support major movements like crawling and walking.
Brain Development
The brain grows and changes, influencing how infants behave and interact with their environment.
Motor Development
Includes fine and gross motor skills; fine involves small movements while gross involves larger movements.
Fine Motor Skills
Small movements using hands and fingers, starting with reaching for and grasping objects.
Gross Motor Skills
Larger movements using arms and legs, including creeping, crawling, and walking.
Sensorimotor Development
Infants learn through sensory experiences and motor actions.
Object Permanence
Understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen.
Violation-of-Expectations Method
Tests infants' surprise when something unexpected happens, used to study object permanence.
Dynamic Systems Approach
Considers how different factors affect development together.
Counting
Learning that numbers represent quantities.
Cause-Effect Relationships
Understanding that one action can lead to another.
Categorizing
Learning to group similar objects together.
Attention Development
Infants start to focus on their environment, indicating early attention skills.
Memory Development
Infants begin to remember people, places, and experiences as their brains develop.
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