Reading and Power Point Packet #5 

Directions: Using the PowerPoint, videos and what you learn from the chapter reading, please complete the following. Please write in complete sentences and elaborate on your responses. 

Born to Learn Video

1. How does touching an infant's hands set the foundation for their social emotional learning and development? 

2. How does executive function skills help infants and toddlers learn and develop?

Chapter Reading and PowerPoint

3. What are the substages of the Piaget’s sensorimotor stage? What happens at each stage? 

4. Explain how the social environment affects cognitive development according to Vygotsky’s theory.

5. How do young infants communicate before they can speak verbally?

6. What did Skinner learn from his research on rat behaviors?