Infancy, “early childhood,” and “a beginning or early period of existence,” a time of vivid transformation in the physical body and cognitive mind, including that of emotional attachment and one’s first social interactions (Infancy). A period of the origins of life which babyhood and toddlerhood unfold from a child’s birth through two years (Berk, 2010, p. 6). As a scholar in the field of human development, researching a subject and evaluating an authentic encounter with the said subject are two separate embodiments. Enlisting assistance from a colleague’s relative, I assessed my revitalizing experience with handling an infant under the age of one.
The child in question was in the lower percentile, regarding the size of infants her age, concerning …show more content…
15). By consistently luring anything she could get her hands on towards her mouth and moreover, kneaded materials through her fingers, expressing her sense of discovery and inquiry through her physical senses. Furthermore, Lily continually pressed her lips together, formulating a popping noise, aligning the exuberant action with the sensorimotor substage of secondary circular reaction (p. 120). Portraying Piaget's Cognitive-Development schemes, the infant denotes her inclination of learning about herself, furthering her intercommunication of interacting with the world around …show more content…
The child's eyes fixated onto her caregiver, while her mother passed her to me. Employing the use of her mother as a secure base, Lily silently studied her mother's nonverbal gestures to coincide with her potential reactions of her conceivable articulation of stranger anxiety (p. 146). This instinctual, instantaneous transaction exposed Lily's confidence in her caregiver, thus according to Erikson's Psychosocial Theory of trust versus mistrust, equates to a warm, balance of care, correlating with a secure attachment to her maternal parent (p. 143, 154). Encompassing Bowlby's Ethological Theory of Attachment, Lily's internal working model of an "Attachment-in-the-making" period has her responding differently to me as a stranger, then her reaction to her mother's embrace (p.
The child in question was in the lower percentile, regarding the size of infants her age, concerning …show more content…
15). By consistently luring anything she could get her hands on towards her mouth and moreover, kneaded materials through her fingers, expressing her sense of discovery and inquiry through her physical senses. Furthermore, Lily continually pressed her lips together, formulating a popping noise, aligning the exuberant action with the sensorimotor substage of secondary circular reaction (p. 120). Portraying Piaget's Cognitive-Development schemes, the infant denotes her inclination of learning about herself, furthering her intercommunication of interacting with the world around …show more content…
The child's eyes fixated onto her caregiver, while her mother passed her to me. Employing the use of her mother as a secure base, Lily silently studied her mother's nonverbal gestures to coincide with her potential reactions of her conceivable articulation of stranger anxiety (p. 146). This instinctual, instantaneous transaction exposed Lily's confidence in her caregiver, thus according to Erikson's Psychosocial Theory of trust versus mistrust, equates to a warm, balance of care, correlating with a secure attachment to her maternal parent (p. 143, 154). Encompassing Bowlby's Ethological Theory of Attachment, Lily's internal working model of an "Attachment-in-the-making" period has her responding differently to me as a stranger, then her reaction to her mother's embrace (p.