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

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

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