Cognitive Development In Early Childhood

For example, children at ages from birth to 2 months interact with their environment through sucking and grasping their toys. As children continue growing at this stage, they develop early speech and realize that their actions affect their surroundings; like when they shake their toy, a sound may start playing. The most important substage of the Sensorimotor stage is object permanence which is

In Piaget’s cognitive stage, children from birth to the age of two go through this stage. In this stage, infants are developing the ability to coordinate their sensory input with there motor skills. An example would be, when kids are playing with toys and put the toys in their month and feel with their mouth. Infants also develop object Permanence. The object Permanence is when a child recognizes that objects continue to exist even when they are no longer visible.

Piaget is describe as the changes in logical thinking of children. Piaget is the theory of how children interact with our environment. Also to see what new information and knowledge a child has experience. Piaget is to interact with our social and physical environment. Piaget is more dealing with nature and capabilities.

Cognitive abilities enable children to process the sensory information that they collect from the environment. According to Wood, Smith and Grossniklaus (2012), Piaget defined cognitive development as the progressive reorganization of the mental processes that results in biological experience and maturation. As numerous researchers have explained, children normally undergo many changes from birth to adolescents, most of them being growth related. According to Cook (2005), the changes in thinking is what researchers call cognitive development. In toddlers, cognitive development is observed through the early use of tools and objects, the child’s behavior when objects are moved in front of them and their understanding when objects and when people are in their environment.

According to this theory children undergo various stage series of cognitive development such as formal operational periods, sensory motor, concrete operational, and pre-operational (Doherty and Hughes, 2009). The child clearly displays that he is currently at the sensory motor stage that happen from birth to 2 years of age. Children at this stage understand the world through adopting their actions and senses through trial and error (Piaget & Cook, 1952). This is particularly interesting because he curiously puts things in his mouth and also like to feels things. For example, he will taste accessories such as earphones, phones covers and even one time he tried to put a razor blade in his mouth.

Jean Piaget was a Swiss psychologist, epistemologist, and he was interested in children’s cognitive development. He created four stages of cognitive development. The four stages are the sensorimotor stage, the preoperational stage, the concrete operational stage, and the formal operational stage. The sensorimotor stage is the infancy stage. The infants in this stage are learning about the world and realizing that if they do something then something around them changes (cause/effect).

The first feeling that in infants are detected can understand, joy, anger, sadness and fear. Later, the children begin to a sense of self-respect, more complex emotions like shyness, surprise, joy, embarrassment, shame, debt, pride, develop and empathy. Pupils and students are still learning, emotions in order to understand why they occur and how to deal with them properly to identify. Children develop, things that their emotional reactions to change, to cause, such as the strategies that you use to manage. The emotions of small children are mainly consist of behaviors and physical reactions (e.g. Heart Beat, butterflies in the stomach).

Understanding the world • The way in which children find out about nature and the world around them. • How children find out about their local communities. • The way in which children develop their confidence when using ICT equipment. Expressive arts and design • The development of children‘s creativity and imagination through art , dance and music . • How children use play to develop these skills Personal , social and emotion development

Children are able to develop and practise motor skills and bodily movements through physical plays. During some cognitive games, such as board games and educational toys, children can improve their mental fitness and brain function. Play also provides opportunities for children to make friends, to negotiate with others, and to develop their communication skills. It helps extend language and improve children’s social ability. I believed that play is essential to children’s education that cannot be minimized and separated from learning.

He emphasize that the way children reason at one stage is different from the way they reason at another stage . The first stage, is called the sensorimotor stage which extends from birth to age about two. In this stage, infants build an understanding of the world by integrating with experiences such as seeing and hearing with physical, motoric actions. Infants obtain knowledge of the world from the physical actions they carry out on it. Piaget 's divide sensorimotor stage into six-sub stages.

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