Cognitive Stage Of Middle Childhood Development

Fisher-Price Jumperoo Rainforest is one of the toys from group A, the targeted age range of this toy is birth to 12 months. According to Piaget’s Four Stages of Cognitive Development, it should be in sensorimotor stage. At this stage the infant is only a purely natural creature, they have no real knowledge about the world, past or future. Infants can only touch and watch, they cannot be logical reasoning. At the end of this stage, there are two cognitive accomplishments infants should have mastered: Object Permanence and Goal directed behavior. First cognitive accomplishment is object permanence, it means infant will know someone or something is still existing even if they cannot see or touch. For example, you hide a toy in front of an infant,

There are various theories of development that provide a strategic framework on how individuals and societies interpret the growth. development and learning of human beings. Throughout the history of psychology, psychologists have proposed numerous theories to predict and interpret different aspects of human behavior. Some theories are well-supported by researchers; and others, are still under examination or partially accepted by researchers. Two theories, Erikson's Theory of Psychological Development, and Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development are both well-accepted and have helped to contribute to our knowledge of the human mind and behavior. Theories such as Freud's Psychosexual Theory have not had much success and have been replaced by other theories to explain human growth and development. Spiritual development is a dimension that has as much significance as psychological and cognitive development.

The middle childhood is to leave the play years to start maturing years to start adolescence (Berk, 2010). During the middle childhood, children began to have a lot physical changes. As well as, they begin to discover there identify that they are. For example, secondary sexual organs begin to develop in the boys and girls, they will confuse about identify. The puberty is the cycle when children are out of control because they will transition to leave the children to enter adolescence. For instance, physical and behavioral changes will have some consequences if pre-adolescences do not deal well with them. Middle childhood is divided into two categories 6 to 8 and 9 to 12 years that reflects on children’s behavior (Nuru-Jeter et al., 2010). For instance, children learn to interact with other children, and how they will manage emotions and behaviors. Also, how they have to act with adults and children that totally different it. Also, the girl and boy have different physical and behavior changes for the gender difference. Middle childhood development makes for some factors that influence on physical changes, brain and nervous system, and social and emotional changes.

Stranger wariness: Infant no longer smiles at any friendly face but cries or looks frightened when an unfamiliar person moves too close.

The Piaget's stage theory of cognitive development is also known as the stage theory. It introduces that, in the expansion of our thinking, we act through an organized and certain sequence of steps. However, the theory focuses not only on compassionate how the children obtain knowledge, but likewise on the discernment of the substance of intelligence. According to the Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, there are two stages in the thinking pattern of a 3-year old preschooler and 9-year-old student. They are the preoperational stage for the 2 to 7 year old and the concrete operations stage for the 9 year old. The preoperational stage (three years old preschooler), this is where a new child can intellectually perform and signify to the objects and issues with the quarrel or the images, and they can act. The concrete operations (nine year old student), where a child is at the stage and deliver the ability to maintain, reserve their thinking, and analyze the objects in conditions of their many parts. However, they can also assume logically and understand comparison, but only about the concrete events.

My educational career started from an urban charter school that specifically targeted students of East African descent like me. Most of the students looked like me, talked like me, came from the same home background as me. And it’s where I met and made most of my lifelong friends. I don’t remember talking very much in school, in hindsight I guess that is why my participation grade was always so low. But I was a “good” student if good meant not getting into trouble, not talking when the teacher was talking, following directions without complaint. Then I was a good student. And because I always turned my homework on time and didn’t get into trouble that equated me to goody two shoes status and teachers pet with my peer.

2. If the individual is an infant, test for object permanence (see pp. 101-102 in your textbook). Describe both the test and the results. If the individual is a child, test his or her conservation skills using one of the tasks described on pp. 148-151 in your textbook. Describe both the test(s) and the results. What does performance on the object permanence or conservation task tell you about the individual’s stage of cognitive development in Piaget’s theory?

In my opinion, the most important cognitive advancement during the middle childhood years is inductive and deductive reasoning. In the text it stated that inductive is the “starting with observation about particular members of a class of people, animals, objects, or events, they draw general conclusions about the class in whole”. (Piaget, pg. 294) An example that the text said is when the child sees a dog bark and repeatedly see’s other dogs barking, they start to figure out that all dogs bark. With deductive reasoning, they stated it different with the same concept, all dogs bark so that means the dog “toby” must bark. As a mother, I worry a lot about my child getting hurt. With this cognitive advance, I believe she will stay away from harm.

Piaget believed there were four stages in a child’s cognitive development and sub stages within these stages. These stages have been the object of debate since Piaget introduced them and are still continuously debated. All of the stages are very concrete and large scale. They don’t account for children at a particular age who are behind or ahead. Piaget underestimated the capability of children to do particular things earlier than he predicted. However, Piaget overestimated the ability of younger children to understand the words used by adults and the implications of their actions. Piaget’s stages help schools to understand that children develop in different ways and hopefully provide schools with different, more stimulating ways to educate students. The four stages have provided a basis for child development, spurred other child psychologists into proving his theories incorrect and created the first step in the understanding of cognitive development.

8 to 12 months the child will begin exploring the world around them and imitating behaviors.

Paget represents cognitive developmental milestones of physical or behavior skills. It can be seen from infant throughout childhood. He understood that this cognitive development occurred through a fixed process. He believed that children construct an understanding of the world around them by experiencing. He sensed that children learned through sensory-motor between the ages of 0-2 years of age. Children learned about object solidity, in which a person or object still exists around them. He also believed that children discover from their own environment, by making mistakes and learning from them. He also called this as their preoperational development through the ages of 2-7 years of age; they learned to see their world as it revolve around

Cognitive development is the construction of the thought processes and how the brain continues to grow from childhood to adulthood. Cognitive development includes remembering, problem solving and decision-making. A 4 year old in cognitive development should be able to correctly name familiar colours, sort objects by shape and colours and remember parts of stories. This relates to my child Bonnie as she is currently able to count to 10 with no supports and is able to name all her basic colours and know the right times to use them when drawing/ colouring in pictures. She also knows her basic shapes like circle, squares and triangles. This relates to my brief how children and young people can be supported during transition as this helps bonnie in her transition from nursery to school as she’s currently has the knowledge in order to get her ready for school.

Children are born with the ability to control their basic physical functioning, such as breathing, sucking, heart rate and controlling body temperature

There are many different things that shape the cognitive development of children. To begin with cognitive development is when a child develops how to process, solve problems, and start making decisions. Once they have learned this they take everything they have learned into their adolescence. An example, of what can shape the cognitive development of a child can be an educational game. Educational games can be very useful in shaping a child’s development because they are having fun while learning at the same time and what kid doesn’t like to play games, the fact that it is even educational makes it even better for them. Not only are they having fun but there are many different games that help in different categories of development in

Motor development is essential to children development. The large motor skills are the gross motor skills that allows the child to use their large muscles such as throwing, running, and climbing. The gross motor skills allow children to combine skills that will allow the child to coordinate their movement. Fine motor skill are the small movements that children learn. These skills consist of picking up things such as a penny using the thumb and index finger which is known as the pincer grasp. Motor skills helps a child with physical activity. Cognitive development in children is important for children because it helps the child learn about the world and how it works. Kindergarten children learn based on watching, imitating, listening and asking