Chapter Outline

The Stories of Latonya and Ramona: Bottle- and Breast Feeding in Africa

Physical Growth and Development in Infancy

• Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal Patterns
• Height and Weight
• The Brain
  • The Brain's Development
  • The Brain's Lobes and Hemispheres
  • Early Experience and the Brain
• Sleep
  • Sleep-Waking Cycle
  • REM Sleep
  • Shared Sleeping
  • SIDS
• Nutrition
  • Nutritional Needs and Eating Behavior
  • Breast- versus Bottle-Feeding
  • Malnutrition in Infancy
• Toilet Training
• Health
  • Immunization
  • Accident Prevention

Motor Development

• The New Look in Motor Development
• Reflexes
• Gross Motor Skills
  • The Development of Posture
  • Learning to Walk
  • Summary and Further Development
• Fine Motor Skills

Sensory and Perceptual Development

• What Are Sensation and Perception?
• The Ecological View
• Visual Perception
  • Visual Acuity
  • Color
  • Visual Preferences
  • Depth Perception
  • Visual Expectations
• Other Senses
  • Hearing
  • Touch and Pain
  • Smell
  • Taste
• Intermodal Perception
• Perceptual-Motor Coupling and Unification