HDFS 21000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Depth Perception, Face Perception, Motor Learning
12 Dec 2016
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Physical growth: greatest increase in height and weight during rst year, rapid growth continues through toddlerhood. Motor development: rolling over, crawling, walking, running, skipping. Fine motor skills: reaching, grasping objects, pincer grasp (with thumb and nger, holding crayon, writing letters. Represent the average performance of a large sample of children of a given age: 50% are at a speci c stage. Allows comparisons between a particular child"s performance on a particular behavior and the average performance of the children in the norm sample. Must be interpreted with caution: often based on caucasian, upper ses samples. Motor learning: infants in action: karen adolph. Motor development and learning: baby human. Infant visual development: presences that are present from birth. Genetically preprogrammed to prefer particular kinds of stimuli: fantz. 2 and 3-month-old infants preferred to look at more complex stimuli than simple ones: infants processing becomes more specialized as they get older, study: Shown photos of unknown human and monkey faces.
