Others have found that infants are more excited by circles and curves and that they will look longer at red and blue than at other colors. Familiar faces preferred to unfamiliar faces. Helps infant find bottle or breast. Sucking - Helps infant obtain needed food. The emergence and development of personal characteristics in an orderly sequence as a result of underlining physical growth.
Maturation refers to physical growth and development of the body - especially the nervous system.
Maturation underlies the orderly sequence observed in the unfolding of many basic abilities, particularly motor abilities, such as crawling and walking. Orderly sequence . While the rate of maturation varies from child to child, the order is almost universal. In general, increased muscular control in infants proceeds from head to toe, and from the center of the body to the extremities. Maturation often creates a condition of readiness for learning.