Nancy Bayley

Group 2- Nancy Bayley (Written Report)
PTHUMD1
Instructor: Laura Annanayo
08/09/2019
Banaag, Ayn R.
Millan, Jheanon Rae Francisco
Serrano, Denise
Saldaen, Betsai Laarnie
Sabanal, Kobe
BSPT-2ND YEAR
Nancy Bayley was a pioneer in the field of human development. She devoted her life to documenting
and measuring intellectual and motor development in infants, children, and adults. Her studies of the
rates of physical and mental maturation have greatly influenced our understanding of developmental
processes. Her "Bayley Scales of Mental and Motor Development" are used throughout the world as
standardized measurements of infant development.
The term maturation comes from maturatio, a Latin word for ripening; thus, many dictionaries
describe maturation as the process of “becoming ripe” or “mature,” and being mature as “being ripe.”
The definition of maturation is broader than it has been defined historically. The Child Study
Movement of the first half of the twentieth century sought to describe child development as a
maturational process that is independent of experience and learning. The goal of much of early
developmental psychology (e.g., the work of Arnold Gessell and Nancy Bayley) was to chart the
course of average and atypical child maturation. This approach, while providing information on
the “what and when” of child development, does not explain “why” children develop as they do.
Bayley scales of infant development
Definition - The Bayley Scales of Infant Development (BSID) measure the mental and motor
development and test the behavior of infants from one to 42 months of age.
Purpose - The BSID are used to describe the current developmental functioning of infants and to
assist in diagnosis and treatment planning for infants with developmental delays or disabilities. The
test is intended to measure a child's level of development in three domains: cognitive, motor, and
behavioral.
Cognitive Development
Cognition can be defined as a process by which knowledge is gained from perceptions or ideas.
Cognitive Development refers to how an infant perceives, thinks, and gains an understanding of the
world.
Motor Development
During the first two years of life, infants grow and develop in many ways. Two types of motor
development occur at this stage. Cephalocaudal development occurs in the following sequence: head
before arms and trunk and arms and trunk before legs. Proximodistal development occurs as follows:
head, trunk, arms before hands and fingers. Motor development has a powerful impact on the social
relationships, thinking, and language of infants. Large motor development allows infants to have more
control over actions that help them move around their environment, while small motor development
gives them more control over movements that allow them to reach, grasp, and handle objects. The
sequence of these developments is similar in most children; however, the rate of growth and
development varies by individual.
Behavioral development
Temperament is the set of genetically determined traits that organize the child's approach to the
world. They are instrumental in the development of the child's distinct personality and behavior. This
behavioral style appears very early in life—within the first two months after birth—and undergoes
development, centered on features such as intensity, activity, persistence, or emotionality.
The BSID were first published by Nancy Bayley in The Bayley Scales of Infant Development (1969)
and in a second edition (1993). The scales have been used extensively worldwide to assess the
development of infants.
The test contains items designed to identify young children at risk for developmental delay . BSID
evaluates individuals along three scales:
 Mental scale: This part of the evaluation, which yields a score called the mental development
index, evaluates several types of abilities: sensory/perceptual acuities, discriminations, and
response; acquisition of object constancy; memory learning and problem solving; vocalization and
beginning of verbal communication; basis of abstract thinking; habituation; mental mapping;
complex language; and mathematical concept formation.
 Motor scale: This part of the BSID assesses the degree of body control, large muscle
coordination, finer manipulatory skills of the hands and fingers, dynamic movement, postural
imitation, and the ability to recognize objects by sense of touch (stereognosis).
 Behavior rating scale: This scale provides information that can be used to supplement
information gained from the mental and motor scales. This scale rates the child's relevant
behaviors and measures attention/arousal, orientation/engagement, emotional regulation, and
motor quality.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/medicine/divisions-diagnostics-and-procedures/medicine/bayley-
scales-infant-development
https://psychology.jrank.org/pages/65/Nancy-Bayley.html
https://www.encyclopedia.com/medicine/psychology/psychology-and-psychiatry/maturation

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Group 2- Nancy Bayley (Written Report)

Instructor: Laura Annanayo

Millan, Jheanon Rae Francisco

Saldaen, Betsai Laarnie

standardized measurements of infant development.

Bayley scales of infant development

development varies by individual.

development, centered on features such as intensity, activity, persistence, or emotionality.

evaluates individuals along three scales:

index, evaluates several types of abilities: sensory/perceptual acuities, discriminations, and

beginning of verbal communication; basis of abstract thinking; habituation; mental mapping;

complex language; and mathematical concept formation.

imitation, and the ability to recognize objects by sense of touch (stereognosis).

behaviors and measures attention/arousal, orientation/engagement, emotional regulation, and

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