Psychology

Psychology

Psychology

Question 01- Why is the touch most important for infant?

Introduction

Physical touch and closeness give the child a sense of security and allow for proper emotional development. Even in the womb the child is experiencing strong tactile stimuli. Child sense of touch has been well developed at birth, which means that from the outset it has a significant influence on the child's emotional development. Already in the belly of a continuous stimulus, the child is subjected to touch, because it is submerged in the waters of fetal that moving in accordance with the movements of the mother, stimulate baby's skin. We also know that the baby in the belly sucks finger; therefore, the infant must receive both tactile leather finger, as well as from the inside of the mouth (Ady, 2008, pp. 110-115).

Discussion

Reasons for the Significance of Touch

Baby skin is the first sensory organ that develops at the earliest. With the multitude of nerve endings in the skin, the baby receives the touch, pain, pressure, temperature. Receptors located in the skin receive information about the realization of our body. The touch is also building a sense of security and love. Early touch strengthens the immune system, increases weight gain and a constant sensitivity of the hypothalamus, resulting in lower levels of stress and calm the child (Hill, 2000 pp. 61-77). This happens because the sensory areas of the brain as the first receive sensory impressions from the body through the skin. They are also connected to the adjacent, motor area of ??the cerebral cortex and time is sometimes referred to as sensory-motor belt or somatosensory cortex. So touch is extremely important in controlling sensory-motor skills. Tactile and sensory information are necessary to achieve muscle and physical activity. Touch system, affecting other sensory systems and movement, stimulates many different levels and areas of the brain. Research shows that the lack of tactile stimuli and thus not stimulate nerve cells in infancy can lead to a reduction in the activity of the stimulating new bark and this results in an impairment of muscle, emotional disturbances, impaired sensory reception and learning difficulties, and in extreme cases, underdevelopment of the basic functions of the body, and even death (Gregory, 2008 pp. 71-103).

Sense of touch allows us to study, evaluate, and explore the surroundings. Tactile sensations are transmitted to the brain. Similar features have also proprioception system, or system of deep feeling. With the sense of proprioception, the infant can maintain balance, posture and orientation in the external world. When learning a new subject misleads hands across its surface, it activates receptors that surface and deep feeling (Neil, 2001, pp. 63-95).



Conclusion

Through the sense of touch, the child receives important information from the outside world, whether it is warm or cold, wet or dry, hard or soft. Also, by touch begins shaping a sense of security and closeness. Even at a later stage, when the child begins to understand our words, and then just verbally communicate their needs and feelings, touch is a very important way of ...