Question 1
Describe changes in infant play from simple motor enactments in the earliest months of life to pretend play through the third year of life. In your answer, describe specific play behaviors which emerge during this period - including social interaction and pretend play. Give examples of infant or toddler play drawn from at least two cultural groups.
Question 2
A researcher is studying the cognitive development of an infant growing up in an impoverished community in Kenya. The researcher finds that the infant is delayed in cognitive development when compared with middle-class Euro-American infants in the United States. Discuss all the possible explanations for this finding, relying on ideas on developmental variations presented in the text.
Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development
Social Development in Central Asia
Fetal development
Adjustments of the Infant at Birth
T Cells: Development of Self-Recognition and Self-Tolerance
Fetal Development