Infant Development

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This paper examines how infant development is one of the most researched topics in psychology and provides us with valuable information concerning the maturation of infants. In order to address the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development of children, it explores the ages at which infants develop gross motor skills and fine motor skills. It also focuses on the cognitive development that is essential to an infant's understanding of his or her surroundings and attempts to explain the relationship between the emotional and social development of an infant.

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"Infants are particularly keen on distinguishing facial expressions during the first two years. (Flavell 1999) In addition, infants have a tendency to focus on people's eyes and have the ability to follow an individual's eye gaze from an early age. The article explains that, "this ability to use eye gaze to detect what another person is looking at makes it possible for the infant to initiate acts of joint visual attention with an adult, acts that will serve to improve the infant's communicative and other social-cognitive abilities." (Flavell 1999)."

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