PSYC 2290 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Frontal Lobe, Malnutrition, Unit

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2290
• Professor: Karli Pedreira

Document Summary

Understanding the physical underpinnings of development are crucial to, and go hand-in-hand with, understanding psychological development. In this unit, we focus on the physical development of the infant and toddler. Topics include the physical growth of the child, brain development, basic learning capabilities, as well as motor and perceptual development. Describe the basic characteristics of brain and body development, and list factors affecting growth. Describe the basic learning capacities that infants and toddlers display in the first two years of life. Describe the motor development of infants and toddlers. Describe the basic perceptual characteristics of infants and how these abilities change in the first two years. See chapter 5 summary in kail & zolner e-book for "flashcards" of this unit"s key terms. In this unit, you began the larger-scale exploration of the development process from infancy through middle childhood, this first section focusing on physical development.