HD 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: 18 Months, Smallpox, Baby Talk

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HD 101
• Professor: Daylee Greene

Document Summary

Fine motor skills- physical abilities involving small body movements: fine = small, especially small movements of the hands and fingers when drawing or picking up a coin, ethnic variation plays a role in sense and motor skill development. Clean water, nourishing food, and immunizations) is the main reason childhood mortality has declined. Four successes in childhood immunization: smallpox, polio, mmr, rotavirus. Stunting- the failure of children to grow to normal height for their age due to severe and chronic malnutrition: wasting- the tendency for children to be severely underweight for their age as a result of malnutrition. Sensorimotor intelligence- piaget"s term for the way infants think-- by using their sense and motor skills. In stage one, reflexes become deliberate; sensation leads to perception, next to cognition, and then sensorimotor intelligence. In stage two, infants adapt their reflexes as repeated responses provide information about what the body does and how that action feels.