The Importance Of Student Cognitive Development

The transition from high school to college is a dynamic time in one’s life that parallels the change from childhood to adulthood. Both of these changes are dramatic and, as a result, feelings are difficult to put down into words. A messy combination of emotions fills the heart, surfacing in strange ways. Confident high school seniors go right back to the bottom of the chain when entering college as freshmen. These students start all over, just like entering grade school or high school for the first time. The move up from high school to college signals the switch from dependence to self-sufficiency. From a personal point of view, going through the experience of graduating high school and transferring to a residential college campus at STLCOP, made me realize I was no longer a kid and capable of making my own decisions.

Attending college will not only allow me to better my interpersonal skills, it also will allow me to network with a diverse student body. Clubs and teams, among other ways to get involved, create many connections between students. From internships to employment opportunities, the connections made at universities have the potential to be life-changing.

For all students leaving high school, college is a diversifying experience that improves students’ outlook of the world. Many students leave high school having known a small group of friends very closely and only spending time around this group of kids. In addition to

Going to college allows for many opportunities to open up in life. Society is changing at a very rapid rate. College is a very difficult time for nearly everyone, as Charles Murray who published an article on should the Obama Generation Drop out also states that “A large majority of young people do not have the intellectual ability to do genuine college-level work” (95). Attending college is not for everyone, but It can teach you to learn how to become independent, develop discipline, evolve new life skills, and learn how to balance a social life versus student life. The experiences you obtain and gain from attending college can lead you to learn how to live your life within the college environment in a way that creates harmony with who you are. It is a time of trial and error until you find what works for you. Eventually harmony is found by choosing a major that coincides in a positive way with the person you are. Once this is found, you will be able to establish a system of studying and learning that works for how your mind works. It is natural that your life will be in disharmony when the circumstances in your life change dramatically, such as when you go to college, but your life should eventually return to being less stressful. During your college journey, you will make many friends. Many friendships that you make in college

As I spent the summer of 2015 at the Governor’s School of North Carolina, located at Meredith College, I learned how to open up to different people in a new place with new possibilities. Governor’s School had a welcoming environment where both staff and students shared respect for each other. I was surrounded by people that I had never met before, but found it simple to make friendships that were strong and would last longer than the experience we shared at Governor’s School. The friendships that were made helped to transform me into an adult by sharing life experiences such as living on our own, supporting each other both personally and professionally, and sharing diverse backgrounds. Of my close friend group each of us had different areas

In Study Guide (2017:4), it is stated that there are three perspectives that play a role in the development and learning processes:

That change from being reliant on one’s parents to becoming an individual and establishing relationships with peers is crucial in the developmental process, especially during the college transition. These peer attachments are beneficial in numerous ways such as boosting self esteem, optimism, and overall life satisfaction. In addition, adolescents who have close relationships with their classmates but have a poor attachment to their parents have more compassion and a lower risk of depression in comparison to those who are attached to their parents but are unable to connect with their peers (9). Consequently, this parental control can affect a college student’s ability to develop relationships with their peers and eventually effect the adolescents

Being in college is about finding yourself, shaping your identity and changing. For most people, college can be a disorienting place, for ones can be easy to make new friends and be extroverted, but for others can be a tremendous impact. Ken’s low expectations were a wake-up call for Mike Rose because he spent his elementary school years being a “mediocre student and a somnambulant problem solver”, he didn’t pay attention to his classes and he didn’t care about his subjects and books. Now that he got to college, Mike understood that college life is difficult for those who don’t have a marked personality, those who haven’t found themselves yet, those who are comfortable with being “average” without being curious about what they might be able

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

This essay will discuss the cognitive and emotional development of children going on further to explore the ongoing debate of nature versus nurture within these. Both can play a vital and important role in influencing a childs development. The term nature refers to an individuals biology, the genetically programmed process of physical maturation (Neaum, 2010). The term nurture refers to all the experiences that each individual child has after they are born that can then influence who they are and what it is that they know (Neaum, 2010).

The hidden curriculum at UCLA may be found in ones’ personal relationships, mindset, and in an individuals’ academic strategies. One crucial personal relationship that a student may establish, is with a group of friends, so that they may be there not only as a support system but to further hold one another accountable for their academic responsibilities. As stated by David Emiliano Zapata Maldonado in The Student-Initiated Retention Project: Theoretical Contributions and the Role of Self-Empowerment students “need to know that they are not going through this [the challenges of college] by themselves.” (622) thus constructing bonds with the right group of people may be extremely beneficial. This aspect of the hidden curriculum informed myself that isolation may be detrimental to one’s academic career, therefore now I know that relationships, not only with friends but especially with academic counselors will have a positive impact on my

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.

As I entered my preschooler phase in life, my cognitive agenda was autonomy and initiative. I showed characteristics of autonomy by picking out my outfit and dressing myself. I had a flamboyant style. I would wear plaid designs with stripes, I have no sense of matching. My mom tried to get to wear clothes that matched but I would become hysterical till I was able to wear my outfit I picked out. My dad, on the other hand, let me wear whatever I wanted. I took initiative with my decision making, if I wanted to do something or get something done, I put my mind to it. On a pre-operation scale, I am sure the task at hand was minimal, but looking forward, this is a cognitive task that is a strong characteristic of mine at twenty years old. The tools in the

The primary question happened to be “What do I look forward to everyday when I go to school?” Some very material and objective solutions came upon me such as seeing my friends every day, spending time with that pretty girl, or even listening to lectures from my favorite teachers. However, these thoughts pushed me to a much more profound notion throughout all of this. It is evident that students and teachers attempt to relate to each other, officers and firefighters, manual laborers and other workers, and with this I observed that we all yearn for connection. Anyone can bond with whom they choose to be with and who they feel would most understand them, especially through education. If high school graduates have any particular reason to continue school, it would be to associate themselves with other minds. This is what makes a college education worthwhile, because not only does it offer possibilities, or a chance at prosperity, but it includes people. People that are on the same mission as you. And it is to these acquaintances that I look towards when I want to learn more, peers that are on a similar journey as I am. Where there is education, there are people, and if you choose to educate yourself for the rest of your life, you will never be

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