The Cognitive Development Of Children

Cognitive development is the way a child sees, thinks and gains understanding of the world through interaction, influence, learned and genetic factors. There are four areas of intelligence and child brain development. They are: biological approaches to intelligence, cognitive succession of stages, knowledge, and intellectual ability.

Cognitive development a certain area of development that is creative and being imaginative e.g. painting would be cognitive and it would develop creativity. Language development is speech in supporting children’s development it includes body language, pronunciation, display boards, reading, writing, listening, dialect and this all helps develop speech. Emotional development is supporting children’s learning is helping control their emotions, expression, communication, self esteem and how they react to different emotions which we try to encourage when we do one to ones. Social development in supporting children’s learning is interacting with others, building friendships which can be helped with free play in nurseries, sharing and turn taking can be helped by games which involve turns and patience. Behaviour in supporting children’s learning is how they act in a situation e.g. when other children are sad, we like to see how they react, sharing, boundaries, emotional well being, patience, rewards, independent, attitude, role models and personality which we

Cognitive development is the childs brain process of how they learn to develop physically (sit up, stand etc.) as well as speech in early years, through to problem solving, thought processes and learning as the child grows and develops.

While playing, children are gaining creative skills for creative development, which enhances the ability of creativity, learning techniques, and academic success. The most important development is cognitive. This development is vital for school success. Cognitive development enables a child to solve problems,

Children acquire most of their motor skills from school, which is where they spend most of their time growing up. School settings can enhance motor development in children through play using toys available to them, however, some school environments can also inhibit motor performance. Children have the opportunity to improve and learn new skills from manipulating different objects as well as can practice intertrial variability from playing with others. In order to better understand the concept of motor development in children, a naturalistic observation can be performed. Depending on the environment, certain motor skills can be refined, while others can be repressed. Haywood and Getchell (2014) suggest

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.

Developmental psychology focuses mainly on development during childhood because it is the period when most change is occurring biologically, socially, emotionally, and cognitively. Amongst these areas of developmental psychology, I will focus on cognitive development in children between the ages of 1 and 4. In adulthood, cognitive performance is correlated with the amount of sleep. Sleep allows for consolidation of memory and neural mechanisms (Bernier,2013). Therefore, an increase in sleep duration and quality should improve cognitive performance in children. Amongst college students, various links have been demonstrated to indicate that the amount of sleep reflects academic performance. Neural imagines reveal that grey and white matter in the frontal lobes increase steadily between the ages of 2 and 4 (Bernier, 2013). In references to this one can hypothesize that if in adulthood sleep is linked with higher executive functioning than during infancy and pre-k age when our brain is the most plastic sleep should be an important role in development. Cognitive development in infancy and pre-k undergoes rapid and dynamic structural and functional changes (Bernier, 2013). Sleep helps integrate neural networks and consolidate complex processes in cognition facilitating childhood cognitive development. In the link between sleep and cognition, critical importance must be emphasized in the role of sleep during child development. A higher duration and quality of sleep results in

Children learning about spiders can help them conquer their fears associated with spiders. Children learn to appreciate the variety of spiders that live around us. Children learn how much work it takes for spiders to build webs, why they are important in the natural world and spiders eat bugs to help keep crops alive. Children also learn that spiders serve an important function for our ecosystems.

Firstly, looking at two theorists who focused on cognitive development. Piaget, who believed that it is mainly nature that influences

In this paper I will cover the interview that I had with a child to evaluate their overall stage of cognitive development. To figure this out, there were questions and games that based on the child's answer I could see what stage they were in. For every game the child would either conserve or not. Whether they did or did not would fit into a chart per game or question. For example: process thinking (focus on transformations), reliance on perception over logic, mechanism, and irreversibility. I hope to learn how a child thinks and compare that to what I thought before the interview, and I hope to illustrate how the child that I interviewed help me figure this out.

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

My first award is my Kindergarten certificate. My emotional development was impacted the most because I learned so much my first year of school it’s just a jumble of feelings. I learned how to make friends. I also learned how to draw, read, and write. Kindergarten taught me so much and I had so much fun, I wish I never had to leave.

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

Both attention and perception are concepts that relate to the cognitive development of human beings. Both concepts contribute to our ability to control and direct the processing of stimuli, whether it is physical, visual, auditory or retrieved from stored memory. Perception is the ability to make sense of our surroundings, whereas attention is the ability to concentrate on any perceived stimuli. A link between perception and attention comes from an individual’s ability to choose which stimuli to allocate their attention towards. This ability is important due to the vast amount of information in which humans are presented with on a daily basis. By using selective attention, individuals are able to focus their attention on a specific

There have been many changes in the technological scene in the last few years. This has prompted the argument on what people stand to benefit from these advancements. This is why there have been many studies and researches that are all intended to show how the electronic media assists in learning amongst children. However, there has been little attention as to what the electronic media does to the same children. The electronic media has become a favorite amongst the learners and in particular children. It is imperative to note that the learning process is not passive. This is because the children do not just heed to the instructions and assume that anything is learnt. The process of learning is active and cognitive. Therefore, the environment under which a child is in has a significant influence on the learning process. It is vivid from this argument that the media has a significant role in the shaping of the children. Electronic media is very beneficial in the learning process but it is imperative that there are regulations because it has a dominant role in cognitive development of children.