Infant Observation Paper

In this paper, I will discuss an observation that was done on an infant in a child care center. The infant is a male who is 13 weeks old, I will call him Moses. During the hour and five minute observation I was able to see Moses roll over, use different sounds, cry, lift his head and observe his own surroundings. Moses is definitely in the sensorimotor stage of Piaget’s cognitive development theory. Moses seemed to be very active and on track for his development. I arrived in Moses class at 10:00 am, he was in Mrs. Morrisey’s infant 1 class. He was just waking up from a nap inside his crib. At 10:02 he laid on his back looking around. He seemed very curious he begin to move his head around. By 10:05 he begin to roll on his back, while he was rolling over I could hear him say “ah”. While rolling over to his tummy he repeated ah, the entire time. I watched him use his hands, body and legs to accomplish this maneuver. Physical activity is important to a child’s development of schemes. …show more content…
He was opening and closing his hands, basically his fist was bald up. While he was crying he had his hands near his mouth, trying to suck on them. This is a sign of reflexes that is based off of later learning. Ms. Morrisey and I felt he must be hungry. I looked up at the board where the food schedule is kept. The schedule stats that Moses ate at 7:00 am it was time for him to eat. However, Ms. Morrisey’s already had bottle in the warmer, Moses time to eat. By 10:15 Moses was drinking his breast milk. He was staring at his teacher and watching her while she rocked him back and forth while singing the good morning