Infants Vs Toddlers

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Before studying the differences in infants and toddlers, we know they develop differently. We never truly think about when and how infants start to develop physically, cognitively, emotionally, and socially. We just know that they grow up and while growing up, they learn new several things. By studying how they develop, we can determine when to start calling an infant a toddler. That change of infancy to toddlerhood occurs when the child starts to develop in those four categories. Throughout this paper, you will learn what each development is about and how infants act in those stages compared to toddlers. First, physical development has two types of motor skills: Gross motor development and Fine motor development. Crawling, standing, and walking are all considered gross motor development. Infants start to explore these motor skills after five months and have achieved them, …show more content…

They also start to recognize their parents through facial or vocal recognition. At a young age if the child does not recognize a person, they demonstrate fear, and turn to someone they recognize. Usually a parent. This is called stranger-anxiety. Fear reactions begin to rise after six months. Some factors that play into fear, or stranger-anxiety, are temperament and experiences with other strangers. Ways to help and infant with fear, is by entertaining them with a toy they find exciting so they can become distracted and overcome their current fear. To illustrate, eighteen-month old Randy quickly crawls to his mom when a stranger tries to approach him. At that moment, Randy experienced fear because he did not know the person approaching him. In the case of two-week old Anna Marie, she demonstrated no fear when a stranger was holding her. This was because Anna Marie wasn't fully attached to her parents yet so she felt comfortable when she was being held by someone unknown to

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