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Physical and Language
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Emotional
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Social
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Birth to 1 month:
Feedings: 5-8 per day
Sleep: 20 hrs per day
Sensory Capacities: makes basic distinctions in vision, hearing, smelling, tasting, touch, temperature, and perception of pain |
Generalized Tension |
Helpless
Asocial
Fed by mother |
2 to 3 months
Sensory Capacities: color percep-
tion, visual exploration, oral exploration.
Sounds: cries, coos, grunts
Motor Ability: control of eye muscles, lifts head when on stomach. |
Delight
Distress
Smiles at a Face |
Visually fixates at a face, smiles at a face, may be soothed by rocking. |
4 to 6 months
Sensory Capacities: localizes sounds
Sounds: babbling, makes most vowels and about half of the consonants
Feedings: 3-5 per day
Motor Ability: control of head and arm movements, purposive grasping, rolls over. |
Enjoys being cuddled |
Recognizes his mother. Distinguishes between familiar persons and strangers, no longer smiles indiscriminately. Expects feeding, dressing, and bathing. |
7 to 9 months
Motor Ability: control of trunk and hands, sits without support, crawls about. |
Specific emotional attachment to mother. Protests separation from mother.
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Enjoys "peek-a-boo" |
10 to 12 months
Motor Ability: control of legs and feet, stands, creeps, apposition of thumb and fore-finger.
Language: says one or two words, imitates sounds, responds to simple commands.
Feedings: 3 meals, 2 snacks
Sleep: 12 hours, 2 naps |
Anger
Affection
Fear of strangers
Curiosity, exploration |
Responsive to own name. Wave bye-bye. Plays pat-a-cake, understands "no-no!" Gives and takes objects. |
1 to 1 ½ years
Motor Ability: creeps up stairs, walks (10-20 min), makes lines on paper with crayon. |
Dependent Behavior
Very upset when separated
from mother
Fear of Bath
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Obeys limited commands. Repeats a few words. Interested in his mirror image. Feeds himself. |
1 ½ to 2 years
Motor Ability: runs, kicks a ball, builds 6 cube tower (2yrs) Capable of bowel and bladder control.
Language: vocabulary of more than 200 words
Sleep: 12 hours at night, 1-2 hr nap |
Temper tantrums (1-3yrs)
Resentment of new baby |
Does opposite of what he is told (18 months). |
2 to 3 years
Motor Ability: jumps off a step, rides a tricycle, uses crayons, builds a 9-10 cube tower.
Language: starts to use short sentences controls and explores world with language, stuttering may appear briefly. |
Fear of separation
Negativistic (2 ½ yrs)
Violent emotions, anger
Differentiates facial expressions of anger, sorrow, and joy.
Sense of humor (Plays tricks)
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Talks, uses "I" "me" "you" Copies parents' actions. Dependent, clinging, possessive about toys, enjoys playing alongside another child. Negativism (2 ½ yrs). Resists parental demands. Gives orders. Rigid insistence on sameness of routine. Inability to make decisions. |
3 to 4 years
Motor Ability: Stands on one leg, jumps up and down, draws a circle and a cross (4 yrs) Self-sufficient in many routines of home life. |
Affectionate toward parents.
Pleasure in genital manipulation
Romantic attachment to parent of opposite sex (3 to 5 yrs)
Jealousy of same-sex parent.
Imaginary fears of dark, injury, etc. (3 to 5 years) |
Likes to share, uses "we" Cooperative play with other children, nursery school. Imitates parents. Beginning of identification with same-sex parent, practices sex-role activities. Intense curiosity & interest in other children's bodies. Imaginary friend. |
4 to 5 years
Motor ability: mature motor control, skips, broad jumps, dresses himself, copies a square and a triangle.
Language: talks clearly, uses adult speech sounds, has mastered basic grammar, relates a story, knows over 2,000 words (5 yrs) |
Responsibility and guild
Feels pride in accomplishment |
Prefers to play with other children, becomes competitive prefers sex-appropriate activities. |
