title: The competence of the infant.
abstract: In our residential nursery we succeeded in realizing a developmental pattern, in the course of which infants, beginning from the first days of their life, could initiate and accomplish increasingly effective interactions with the adults caring for them, and with the physical environment. Development, preliminary conditions and the importance of competence are discussed.
mesh_terms: D002652:Child Behavior; D002657:Child Development; D004777:Environment; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007224:Infant Care; D007231:Infant, Newborn / Q000523:psychology*; D009048:Motor Skills; D002666:Psychology, Child