Theory of Cognitive Development and Children

For example, throughout the various interviews, whenever Kate and Alexis were talking , she would suddenly interrupt and give her opinion on the asked question (ie. school uniforms, discrimination, etc). Also, she is willing to correct someone else when they make a mistake. For example, when Alexis mistakenly told the interviewer that suspended means getting kicked out of school, Lucy immediately jumps into the conversation and rectifies Alexis’ mistake. A 7 year old Lucy also seems to be rather insightful in regards to real world questions; it seems as if she has already been enlightened by the world around her when compared to her friends. As stated in the documentary, she knows that it is possible to have children even before you are married and she already understands the concept of drugs and strangers and what to do in a real-world situation.

Managing feelings and behaviour: children talk about how they and others show feelings, talk about their own and others’ behaviour, and its consequences, and know that some behaviour is unacceptable. They work as part of a group or class, and understand and follow the rules. They adjust their behaviour to different situations, and take changes of routine in their stride.

At this stage Michael will find it hard to remembering things. Especially if they are under pressure. Their reaction time will also become slower. However, because of their past experience in life, they will be able to make better decisions than younger people. In addition at this stage Michael will start to get ready for

. They start to do logical thinking and are able to differentiate what is right and what is

Jean Piaget was born in 1896 I Switzerland. Jean Piaget was a scientist at a very early age and published his work as

Certainly, adults have closed their minds to ideas, thoughts, and feelings by what they have seen or heard. Nguyen says “I taught my son the face and name of the man who is president, along with a few negative words for him. That was wrong”. Instead, teaching children to empathize, listen and feel is more beneficial, even with opposing opinions on most matters.

| They make a huge leap at this age, they are bale to understand more what going on around them and understand the needs of others. They learn to look forward to going to tings such as nursery and play school.

In social cognition, theory of mind refers to a person’s ability to make causal attributions

* Refers to the private thoughts, emotions, feelings, and motives that other people can not directly observe.

Despite her lack of emotional development and her lack of social skills she show signs of being capable of highly intelligent thoughts and actions. Although she disregards what her elders says she cannot do, she finds a way around it in front of them. She will wait until they are no long paying attention to her, before she goes about doing what she wants. When first told she cannot do something she reacts like a normal child and has a tantrum and allows the adult to think that they have won the small battle. She know how to use her age and brain to achieve different

The Cognitive Perspective: This is a way to explain how an individual’s thoughts and explanations have a profound effect on their actions feelings

According to Woolfolk, (2010) “As children children mature and their brain develop, they are better able to focus their attention, process information more quickly, hold more information in memory, and use thinking strategies more easily and flexibly” (p.40).For instance, when children grow older, they mature gradually, abide by the rules better and derive strategies for resolving problems and intellectual rational (Siegler.2000).

Children also will realize everyone have different thinking on the same current situation in this stage. For example, children will tell we cannot lie because it was a wrong

The ability of understanding intentions of others is very important for social development of children (Feinfield, Lee, Flavell, Green, & Flavell, 1999). By means of understanding intentions children can make sense of that people and animates are different from objects (Feinfield, et al., 1999). According to Shantz (1983), this ability is the requisite to understand morality and responsibility. To understand plans and planning we also need to have the ability of understanding intentions (Feinfield, et al., 1999). In addition, Feinfield and colleagues stated that acquiring the ability of understanding intentions of others is also important for the cognitive development of the children such as theory of mind (ToM) that is “the understanding

It is used to explain and make predictions about human mental states and behavior. This view is often referred to as the theory of mind , for it is a theory which theorizes the existence of an unacknowledged theory. Churchland talks about how Folk Psychology has to be understood as a real theory with a rule-based model, from which emerges the concept of intentionality. He points out how Folk psychology has been mistaken about many important mental phenomena like: dreaming, consciousness, mental disorders, learning processes, and memory abilities. Many of which can or is being examined or explain by neuroscience today. Therefore according to him, one day a completed neuroscience will replace it. So at that our understanding of the mind and even our introspection will change as it