1. Learning Goals
1. Describe how motor skills develop.
 What is the dynamic systems view of motor development?
 What are reflexes?
 What are some reflexes of infants?
 What are gross motor skills and how do they develop?
 What are fine motor skills?
 How do fine motor skills develop?
2. Outline the course of sensory and perceptual development.
 What are sensation and perception?
 What is the ecological view of perception?
 What are some research methods used to study infant perception?
 How does vision develop?
 How does hearing develop?
 How do touch and pain develop?
 How does smell develop?
 How does taste develop?
 What is intermodal perception and how does it develop?
3. Discuss the connection of perception and action.
 How are perception and motor actions coupled in development?
Key Terms
Accommodation of the eye Grasping reflex Reflex
Affordances Gross motor skills Rooting reflex
Cataracts Habituation Sensation
Dishabituation Intermodal perception Shape constancy
Dynamic systems theory Macular degeneration Size constancy
Ecological view Moro reflex Sucking reflex
Fine motor skills Perception Visual preference method
Glaucoma
Key People
Karen Adolph Eleanor and James Gibson Elizabeth Spelke
T. Barry Brazelton Megan Gunnar Esther Thelen
Rachel Clifton William James Richard Walk
Robert Frantz