Psychology

I believe that physical development starts at conception. While in the womb the child is developing rapidly and is learning before they are born. They are moving and listening to the noise around them. Then they are born and they know how to nurse from their moms or they know how to eat from a bottle. They double in size and triples in weight in the next couple months of their lives. They begin to smile and lift their heads up around two months and by 6 months they want to be more active and mobile. They will sit up and start to grab things with their hands. Usually they will learn to crawl then to walk all within their first year depending on the child and how well they develop. Eventually the little baby of yours will be running and kicking and throwing balls by themselves. Socially they can display basic emotions and are able to recognize others emotions showing early signs of empathy. Children under the age of two have attachments formed to their caregivers. Children ages birth to two have cognitive development such as turning their when hearing noises, playing with their toys, lifts things up with hands by the time they are six months old. By two years old they will be able to build with blocks, turn pages in books, draw with crayons, match pictures and speak some words.

Jean Piaget had a theory that I believe best describes this developmental stage. Piaget believed that child actively explore their world and do not need formal instructions. He believes that their development takes place through the child’s own actions and their environment. Piaget has stages in his theory of cognitive development. Piaget suggests that all children develop through four stages, sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational and formal operational. During the sensorimotor stage children ages birth to two years begin to understand things that are happening around them. They learn what makes things happen. They begin to understand object permanence. Object permanence...