Motor development and cognition in infancy

Question 1

Motor development

Answer 1

• Early motor development is impaired by poor muscle strength
  
  • And by under-developed motor coordination
    Locomotion begins to emerge by the mid-point of the first year of life

Question 2

Do changes in motor development have major consequences for cognition

Answer 2

• Particularly notable with crawling
  Acquiring the ability to move unaided brings concurrent improvements in memory (Herbert et al 2007)

Question 3

What does the onset of crawling bring

Answer 3

Greater memory flexibility

Question 4

What is perception

Answer 4

Perception refers to how we see or hear or directly experience the world

Question 5

What is cognition

Answer 5

• Cognition refers to how we form, use and act upon internal thoughts and states
  These are known as mental representations

Question 6

What is object permanance

Answer 6

• the ability to understand that even if an object can no longer be seen, it still continues to exist