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Infancy The Development of the Whole Child 1st Edition By Lisa Oakes, Vanessa Lobue, Marianella Casasola

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Pages: 510
File size: 22.26 MB
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Course: Psychology
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The Infancy: The Development of the Whole Child (1st Edition), written by Lisa M. Oakes, Vanessa LoBue, and Marianella Casasola, is a topically organized textbook that explores infant and toddler development from birth to age three. [1]

Instead of looking at milestones in isolation, the book adopts an interconnected bio-psycho-social framework. The core topics and themes covered throughout the text include: [1, 2]

1. Biological and Physical Development

Brain Development: How the infant brain grows, maps connections, and adapts to early environments.
Perceptual and Sensory Systems: The initial status and rapid maturation of an infant’s vision, hearing, touch, taste, and smell.
Motor Skills: The progression of gross motor milestones (e.g., rolling, sitting, crawling, walking) alongside fine motor control (manipulating objects).
Health and Nutrition: Crucial early-life practices like breastfeeding and their broader developmental impacts. [1, 2]

2. Psychological and Cognitive Development

Cognitive Processing: Early memory systems, attention spans, problem-solving abilities, and how infants conceptualize the physical world. [1, 2]
Historically Significant & Modern Theories: Grounding core observations in classic frameworks (such as Piaget’s sensorimotor stages) while incorporating cutting-edge modern research. [1, 2]
Language Acquisition: The progression of infant communication from early vocalizations (cooing and babbling) to gestures, word learning, and early sentence structure. [1, 2]

3. Social and Emotional Development

Attachment Frameworks: How infants build psychological attachments with primary caregivers and how different attachment styles form. [1, 2]
Temperament and Personality: Individual differences in infant dispositions, behavioral styles, and the concept of "goodness of fit" between child and environment. [1]
Self-Awareness and Emotional Growth: The emergence of self-concept, social anxiety (such as stranger wariness and separation anxiety), and emotional regulation. [1, 2]

4. Sociocultural and Environmental Contexts

The "Whole Child" Intersection: How cultural backgrounds, socioeconomic status (SES), and language exposure create unique individual paths in development.
Applied Contexts: Connecting empirical lab research directly to real-world parenting choices, modern social policies, and everyday home environments. [1]