Developmental Milestones

Yes an infant’s temperament can shape his/her cognitive and socio-emotional development. Biological, psychological and social stages within development milestones the developmental process is a very critical time for a child, from the time there an infant and throughout their entire life-span (zastrowp70, col 2). “As infants grow and develop, their growth follows certain patterns and principles. At each stage of development, people are physically and mentally capable of performing certain types of tasks” (zastrow, p70, bottom). Mastery of the various developmental levels is essential for infants to have a normal and progressive life. Transitions or changes in environment can delay developmental milestones. Biological development is “the progressive

changes in size, shape, and function during the life of an organism by which its genetic potentials are translated into functioning nature systems.
Process of development consist of schemes it’s when the brain of an infant or child seeks to understand the world. Sucking, looking, and grasping can be constructed as baby schemes. Behavioral schemes (physical activities) characterize infancy and mental schemes (cognitive activities) develop in child hood. When new information’s or experiences is used by children assimilations happens vs when children change their schemes to the new information or experiences that’s being taking on its called accommodation. Secluded behaviors and thoughts can be consider to be organization. When a child thought process changes to another stage it’s called equilibration these stages are used to develop. Each stages it an advancement from the last. Childs reasons chances with in each stage. Sensorimotor stage has six sub stages that consist of “(1) simple reflexes takes place the first month the baby is born. They start to put feeling and actins together such as sensation and action. (2) first habits and primary circular reactions takes place first month to the fourth month. Feeling and: habits and primary circular reactions schemes are taking place. (3) Secondary circular reactions develops between 4 and 8 month. Infant becomes concerned with object. (4) Coordination of secondary circular reactions takes place between 8 and 12 months of age. This stage consist of coordination of vision and touch, hand and eye. (5) Tertiary circular reactions, novelty, and curiosity develops between 12 and 18 months. Infants are now fascinated with objects and what they can do with them or to them. (6) Internalization of schemes develops between 18 and 24 months. At the stage symbols are being used. When an infant can come to terms of the world by seeing and hearing with physical, motoric actions sensorimotor stage is being taken place. It last from the time the child is born to 2 years old. . “At the beginning of this stage, newborns have little more than reflexes with which to work. By the end of the sensorimotor stage, 2-year-olds can produce complex sensorimotor patterns and use primitive symbols” (Santrock, J. W. (2012).
In the developmental stages from the time infants are newborn to about 9 months they should be able to progress and mastered all functions.

A healthy pregnancy is a start to a good biological beginning for a baby. The developmental milestone process in infant’s progression can be normal and accurate for most stages however, a few transitions or changes in an environment can increase a delay in infants developmental milestones. As infants began to grow, then began to master normal age-related skills such as, at 2 months they would smile when he would see familiar faces. They tend to get attached to those that are familiar with. Lack of time spent with an infant biological mother, can increase attachment to his care giver vs their mother. At four months infants developed the typical motor skills for his age such as, sucking, chewing on his bottle or teething ring. Also, they also began to recognize sounds and voices, such as music. They would respond to the music he heard by kicking and eyes began to explore his environment. Infants tend to grab their hair and glasses and roll over. Playing with infants at six months and they should respond to by gurgling and making eye contact. They began to verbalize more at seven months such as cooing and gurgling in social environment they should be able to recognize those they are familiar

with.
A social and environmental change such as changing their care givers or being placed in day care can cause their sensory motor skills to become delayed.

A new physical geographical location and surrounded by a new social environment such as a new caregivers at daycare can cause that. Infants can master a tasks but changing their environment can delay it because they are not familiar with that environment causing delay their social and psychological growth.
Taking a baby out of their environment can be form of stress that affected his motor skills as a counter reaction towards this sudden change. It going to take some time for the infants to become accustomed to their new caregivers’ for them to resume where they left off at. It takes time to build trust amongst his new social system, after he was comfortable he continued the developmental growth process
Analyzing how environmental and sociocultural factors may help to explain the child’s developmental progress. Describing the child’s development based on these models, discuss how effectively each of the two theories explain the behaviors of the child, drawing upon the theories’ assumptions, your understanding of their social construction, and their respective strengths and limitations. The psychosocial developmental stage is based around one’s social environment. Erik Erikson created theory based on Freud’s psychosexual approach; however, Erikson focuses on a how one’s social environment continues to shape their behavior throughout

a life-span (213, robbins).