Neuroscience Week 7: Child Development Flashcards
Sensorimotor age
0-2 years
Sensorimotor stage worldview
understands the world through senses and actions
Preoperational stage age
2-7 years
Preoperational stage Worldview
Understands the world through language and mental images
Concrete operational stage age
7-12 years
Concrete operational stage Worldview
understands the world through logical thinking and categories
Formal operational stage age
12 years +
Formal operational stage Worldview
understands the world through hypothetical thinking and scientific reasoning
stages of development

Sensorimotor stage description
- The infant explores the world through direct sensory and motor contact
- Object permanence and separation anxiety develop during this stage
Object permanence and separation anxiety develop during this stage
Sensorimotor Stage
Preoperational stage description
- The child uses symbols (words and images) to represent objects but does not reason logically
- The child also has the ability to pretend
- during this stage the child is egocentric
Concrete operational stage description
- The child can think logically about concrete objects and can thus add and subtract
- the child also understands conservation
Formal operational stage description
The adolescent can reason abstractly and think in hypothetical terms
The stage that the child is egocentric
Preoperational stage
The stage the child has the ability to pretend
preoperational stage
The stage that the child can think logically
Concrete operational stage
fine motor skill age: Reflex such as grasping age
0 months
The stage that the child understands the principle of conservation
Concrete operational stage
fine motor skill age: reaching (ineffective)
1-3 months
fine motor skill age: grasping
3 months
fine motor skill age: Reach and grasp
4-5 months
fine motor skill age: control of reach and grasp
6-7 months
fine motor skill age: Pincer grasp
9 months
fine motor skill age: Clasps hands
10 months
fine motor skill age: Releases objects crudely
12-14 months
fine motor skill age: Controlled release
18 months
gross motor skill age: holds head up and steady
1-2 months
gross motor skill age: holds up head and chest with arms during tummy time
2-3 months
gross motor skill age: sits with support
2-3 months
gross motor skill age: rolls from tummy to back
3-4 months
gross motor skill age: rolls from back to tummy
6-7 months
gross motor skill age: sits without support
6-8 months
gross motor skill age: pulls toward standing position
8-9 months
gross motor skill age: crawls
9 months
gross motor skill age: walks with support (holding hands)
9-10 months
gross motor skill age: stands without support
11-12 months
gross motor skill age: walks without support
12-13 months
Infant Motor timeline

Stages of psychosocial development: Infant
Trust vs Mistrust
Stages of psychosocial development: Toddler
Autonomy vs shame and doubt
Stages of psychosocial development: Preschooler
Initiative vs guilt
Stages of psychosocial development: grade schooler
industry vs inferiority
Stages of psychosocial development: teenager
identify vs role confusion
Stages of psychosocial development: young adult
intimacy vs isolation
Stages of psychosocial development: middle-age adult
generativity vs stagnation
Stages of psychosocial development: older adult
integrity vs despair
Stages of psychosocial development

Freud’s Psychosexual stages

Freud’s Psychosexual stages of development: Oral stage
infant achieves gratification through oral activities such as feeding, thumb sucking and babbling
Freud’s Psychosexual stages of development: Oral stage age
0-2
Freud’s Psychosexual stages of development: Anal stage age
2-3
Freud’s Psychosexual stages of development: Anal stage
The child learns to respond to some of the demands of society (such as bowel and bladder control)
Freud’s Psychosexual stages of development: Phallic stage age
3-7
Freud’s Psychosexual stages of development: Phallic stage
The child learns to realize the difference between males and females and becomes aware of sexuality
Freud’s Psychosexual stages of development: Latency stage age
7-11
Freud’s Psychosexual stages of development: Latency stage
the child continues his or her development but sexual urges are relatively quiet
Freud’s Psychosexual stages of development: Genital stage age
11-adult
Freud’s Psychosexual stages of development: Genital stage description
the growing adolescent shakes off old dependencies and learns to deal maturely with the opposite sex
Development table

1-3 month milestones: motor
lifts head when lying prone
1-3 month milestones: social
smiles in response to a human face
1-3 month milestones: verbal/cognitive
“Cooes”/gurgles in response to human attention
1-3 month milestones

Primitive Reflexes
5 listed
- Suck
- Startle “Moro”
- Palmar grasp
- Babinski Reflex
- Rooting reflex
Brazelton’s Neonatal behavioral scale
special attention to other

4-6 month milestones: motor
- turns over (5 months)
- Sits unassisted (6 months)
- Reaches for objects
- Grasps with entire hand
4-6 month milestones: social
- Forms attachment to primary caregiver
- Recognizes familiar people
4-6 month milestones: verbal cognitive
Babbles (repetition of single sounds over and over)
7-11 month milestones: Motor
crawls on hands and knees
pull to stand
transfer toys between hands
pick up toys and food with “pincer” grasp (10 months)
7-11 month milestones: social
- Stranger anxiety
- social games such as peek-a-boo
7-11 month milestones: verbal or cognitive
- imitates sounds and uses gestures
- responds to name and simple instructions
12-15 month milestones: motor
walks unassisted
12-15 month milestones: social
shows separation anxiety
12-15 month milestones: verbal/cognitive
- says first words
- shows object permanence
18 month milestones: motor
- throws a ball
- stacks 3 blocks
- climbs stairs one foot at a time
- scribbles on paper
18 month milestones: social
Rapprochement (to and from caregiver)
18 month milestones: verbal/cognitive
- Responds to 10 words
- says own name
2 year milestones: motor
- kicks a ball
- balances on one foot for 1 second
- stacks 6 blocks
- feeds self with spoon
social2 year milestones:
- negatively (“No”) tantrums
- parallel play
2 year milestones: verbal/cognitive
- 250 words in 2 word sentences
- names body parts and objects
3 year milestones: motor
- rides a tricycle (tri at 3)
- undress and partially dresses independently
- climbs stairs using alternate feet
- stacks nine blocks (3x3)
- draws a circle
3 year milestones: social
- gender identity
- bowel and bladder control (Encopresis at 4 years old and enuresis at 5 yo)
- separates from mother for part of the day
3 year milestones: verbal/cognitive
- complete sentences: speaks 900 words and comprehends 3500 words
- identifies some colors
- strangers can understand their level of articulation
4-year milestones: motor
- catches a ball with arms and hops on one foot
- dresses independently and grooms self
- draws a person, copies a cross or rectangle
4-year milestones: social
- cooperative play, role-play, imaginary play with magical thinking
- curious about sex/gender differences
- nightmares and transient phobias
4-year milestones: verbal/cognitive
- good verbal self-expression (stories)
- predisposition use and comprehension
5-year milestones: motor
- catches a ball with two hands and skips using alternate feet
- draws a person in detail and copies a square
5-year milestones: social
- romantic feeling about opposite sex
- overconcerned about physical injury
5-year milestones: verbal/cognitive
further improvement in verbal and cognitive skills
6-year milestones: motor
- tie shoelaces and ride a 2 wheel bicycle
- print letters
- copy a triangle
6-year milestones: social
begin moral development
begin understanding finality of death
6-year milestones: verbal/cognitive
- Begins reading
- begins logically thinking
Hallmarks of school-age children
8 listed

Hallmarks of adolescents
8 listed

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