Topic 1 DQ 1
How are gross-motor and fine-motor development similar? How are they different? Provide at
least two examples of how they are similar and different in your response.
A motor skill is simply when your baby uses his or her muscles to help with their actions. Gross
Motor skills pertain to skills involving large muscle movements like with your arms, legs, or
entire body. The following examples include independent sitting, crawling, walking and
running. Fine motor skills involve the use of the smaller muscles like with your fingers, hands
and wrists these include the following: grasping, object, manipulation and drawing. Another
thing that your baby may use is their lips and tongue to understand how one may taste or feel
when using your fine motor skills. They are different because one deals with the large muscle
movements while the other deals with the small muscle movements. It is important to remember
that each child is different including when they may meet with their milestone. Eventually your
baby will get the skills that they will need in order to grow.
Caton, 2021, What’s the difference between fine motor and gross motor skills?, Retrieved from
https://www.babycentre.co.uk/x6562/whats-the-difference-between-fine-motor-and-gross-motor-
skills
Topic 1 DQ 2
What is object permanence? How does the concept of object permanence relate to parent
child relationships later in life? Provide at least two examples in your response.
Object permanence is the understanding of objects that continue to exist even when they cannot
be perceived. This is the field of psychology that addresses the development of how young
children are with social and mental capacities. Children experience everything slightly
differently including on when they experience object permanence. But it is known around the
age of 5 months, the baby starts to slightly understand the performance of objects. For an
example: if you were to take away something from the child, they are more likely to think that
they will not get it back. The child is able to identify parents and/or caregivers at the age of 2
months old.
They are easily adjusted to others that are around them as well because they do not know the
meaning of time. Object permanence can also happen when something new happens in the
family like adding in another sibling or moving to a new location/house. It is important for a
parent to know about object permanence in order to know what o look for when their child is
developing. Being able to accomplish milestones are easier for some child than others just
remember that eventually they will hit that milestone and you will be the proudest parent.
Alycia Upton
Reference:
Berk, L. E. (2018). Exploring lifespan development (fourth). Pearson
The understanding of human development is so critical to those in the behavioral health field
because it is important to know how one may think, react or learn. It is important for one to gain
How are gross-motor and fine-motor development similar? How are they different? Provide at
least two examples of how they are similar and different in your response.
A motor skill is simply when your baby uses his or her muscles to help with their actions. Gross
Motor skills pertain to skills involving large muscle movements like with your arms, legs, or
entire body. The following examples include independent sitting, crawling, walking and
running. Fine motor skills involve the use of the smaller muscles like with your fingers, hands
and wrists these include the following: grasping, object, manipulation and drawing. Another
thing that your baby may use is their lips and tongue to understand how one may taste or feel
when using your fine motor skills. They are different because one deals with the large muscle
movements while the other deals with the small muscle movements. It is important to remember
that each child is different including when they may meet with their milestone. Eventually your
baby will get the skills that they will need in order to grow.
Caton, 2021, What’s the difference between fine motor and gross motor skills?, Retrieved from
https://www.babycentre.co.uk/x6562/whats-the-difference-between-fine-motor-and-gross-motor-
skills
Topic 1 DQ 2
What is object permanence? How does the concept of object permanence relate to parent
child relationships later in life? Provide at least two examples in your response.
Object permanence is the understanding of objects that continue to exist even when they cannot
be perceived. This is the field of psychology that addresses the development of how young
children are with social and mental capacities. Children experience everything slightly
differently including on when they experience object permanence. But it is known around the
age of 5 months, the baby starts to slightly understand the performance of objects. For an
example: if you were to take away something from the child, they are more likely to think that
they will not get it back. The child is able to identify parents and/or caregivers at the age of 2
months old.
They are easily adjusted to others that are around them as well because they do not know the
meaning of time. Object permanence can also happen when something new happens in the
family like adding in another sibling or moving to a new location/house. It is important for a
parent to know about object permanence in order to know what o look for when their child is
developing. Being able to accomplish milestones are easier for some child than others just
remember that eventually they will hit that milestone and you will be the proudest parent.
Alycia Upton
Reference:
Berk, L. E. (2018). Exploring lifespan development (fourth). Pearson
The understanding of human development is so critical to those in the behavioral health field
because it is important to know how one may think, react or learn. It is important for one to gain
