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Physical and
Language |
Emotional |
Social |
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 months
to
3 months |
Sensory Capacities:
color perception, 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 months
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 months
to
9 months |
Motor Ability:
control of trunk and hands, sits without support,
crawls about. |
Specific emotional
attachment to mother.
Protests separation from mother. |
Enjoys "peek-a-boo" |
10 months
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 years
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 |
Obeys limited commands.
Repeats a few words.
Interested in his mirror image.
Feeds himself. |
1 ½ years
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
years
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) |
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
years
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
years
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.
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