In the first 4 months in an infant life, the sense of hearing and seeing allow the infant to hear the voices and see faces of their caregiver. Perception takes place and social bonding and language starts to develop. Other senses like tasting and smelling allows the infant to develop a taste and smells of what the …show more content…
103). Motor skills starts in infants as reflexes that becomes skills if they are practiced and encouraged. Infants are born with a sucking reflex, rooting reflex, moro reflex and grasping reflex. These reflexes becomes skills that is need in the development of gross motor skills. Gross motor skills is the physical abilities involving large body movements, such as walking and jumping (Berger, 2014, p. 103). Gross motor skill development starts from infancy with reflex to development of posture, crawling and to learning to walk. It continue into childhood as walking, running, jumping, and climbing