CE114Infant, Toddler and Early Childhood

Development

Get comfortable, grab something to drink, and socialize with your

classmates. We will begin in just a few minutes.

Tonight’s Quote

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is

serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

Fred Rogers

Unit Four Psychosocial and Cognitive Development of the Infant

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify important theories associated with the psychosocial and cognitive development of the infant.

2. Discuss ways to facilitate social, emotional, and cognitive development.

3. Describe factors that influence the cognition, language, and literacy development of infants.

Outline

• Attachment/Bonding• Psychosocial Development• Factors influencing psychosocial development• Cognitive Development• Language and Literacy Development• Factors influencing cognitive, language and

literacy development

Attachment Theory/Bonding

• Phase 1 – Indiscriminate responsiveness to humans – birth to 8-12 weeks

• Phase 2 - focusing on familiar people – 3-6 months

• Phase 3 – Active proximity seeking – 6 months-3 years

• Phase 4 – Partnership behavior – 3 years – end of childhood

Parents’ roles

What are some things that mothers can do to enable their infants to become secure?

What are some things that fathers can do?

FIELD TRIP!!• Let’s take a field trip to our Wikispace!• Select one article to read and one video to

watch. Return to the seminar prepared to share one idea from each.– How to Help Develop Literacy Skills in Pre-School

Children (article)– Piaget – Stage 1 Sensorimotor (video)– 20 fun, silly development-boosting games to play

with your baby (article)– Baby Signs (video)

Psychosocial Development

• Infant temperament• Emotions• Crying – mode of

communication• Self-awareness• Facial expressions

Factors influencing development

• Care• Bond and attachments• Essential experiences• Socio-cultural• Social interactions• Fit with caregivers• Continuity of care

• Non-parental care• Overall health, safety

and freedom from stress

• Mental health

Unit Four Project

• Developmental Stages Chart

• Download chart from course page

• Include a minimum of 6 items for each area

• Review grading rubric prior to submission

• Use Word to check spelling/grammar

Unit Four Project Rubric

Cognitive Development

• Piaget• Information processing• Social interaction• Contextual

Language Development

• Child directed speech• Early exposure• Inborn capacity for

language?• Behaviorist view• Language development first

year

What are some things that adults can do to assist with language

development?

Literacy Development

• Types of books for infants

When should we begin exposing infants to books?

Why is this important?

Factors influencing this development

• Pre-natal factors• Health of infant, specifically vision and hearing• Proper nutrition• Conducive environments• Interactions with others

Summary

• Attachment/bonding• Psychosocial development• Cognitive development• Language and literacy development

Consider what you, as a childcare professional, can do to provide the

best environment for this development in infants.

Our time is nearly done for tonight. As always, I

have really enjoyed this hour with you.

I hope that you have a great week!