Life of PIES By Freya Infancy Physical Physical

Life of PIES By Freya

Infancy Physical: Physical coordination progresses downwards, beginning with the head and moving through the neck, trunk, arms, and finally the legs. We are all born with survival reflexes because they protect us and keep us alive until we have to developed enough and are capable of learning to defend ourselves. There are 6 reflexes, which are the rooting reflex, the sucking reflex, the stepping reflex, the Babinski reflex, the grasping reflex and the startle reflex.

Infancy Intellectual: Jean Piaget’s theory suggests that babies are in the stage of cognitive development called sensorimotor. This is where intelligence develops as a result of movement actions and their consequences, increasing awareness of the difference between themselves and others. When they reach two years old, they begin to move into the second stage, preoperational (further explained in childhood).

Infancy Emotional: Babies have an emotional attachment (tie or bond) to their care-giver and feel comfortable and safe when with them. At around a year old, babies begin to learn how their behaviour effects their caregiver and can express emotions through tears, laughter and facial expressions. At two years, they begin to have trouble expressing their emotions and they show a degree of empathy through play (Barbie becomes a princess vs. Barbie thrown in jail).

Infancy Social: Play is one of the ways in which children develop social relationships outside their families. As young as the age of three, children are already adjusting their communication styles and understand that different types of communication are needed depending on who they are with. Girls play gently and are quite emotional in the games they play, whereas boys are rougher and more physical.

Childhood Physical: By the age of three they should have learnt how to carry out most gross motor skills, which are big movements and easy skills, and are starting to develop their fine motor skills, which are small movements and complicated skills. They know how to do things like build a brick tower or throw a ball, but still need to learn, for example, how to tie their shoelaces.

Childhood Intellectual: In Piaget’s theory, children are going through the preoperational and concrete operational stages. Preoperational is when verbal communication begins to emerge but the child cannot consider multiple aspects of a problem, so they are incapable of