CHILD COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

Child Cognitive Development

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Child Cognitive Development

According to Piaget and his theories on child cognitive development, children born with a great desire to interact and understand the world around them. The term child cognitive development refers to how a child perceives, thinks and gains understanding the world through interaction and influence of genetic and learned "(Plotnik-1999}.

According to Piaget, defines four areas of intelligence and child brain development and these include: a biological approach to intelligence, the sequence of cognitive stages, knowledge, intellectual competence. Many preschool and other programs of cognitive development based on the theories of Piaget on cognitive development and the challenge of educating parents and teachers the skills of the child, taking care not to introduce concepts that are beyond your understanding .

Combine this with hands-on experiences, field trips and field game, as well as craft-making and is the basis of a complete program of learning derived from research materials of Piaget on cognitive development. Piaget divides the brain development of children in other categories as follows: The sensor output phase of cognitive development, where intelligence is demonstrated through motor activity with a strong lack of symbols.

The interaction at this stage of cognitive development is totally dependent on the environment and object permanence is achieved at 7 months old. natural cognitive development and allows greater mobility of brainpower in this new stage. The stage of pre-operational cognitive development occurs in children and early childhood. Intelligence is demonstrated through the increased use basic symbol and language as well during this stage of cognitive development.

Egocentric thinking begins to dominate, but is achieved in a non-logic and not reversible. This period of cognitive development is also more developed imagination with vastly improved memory. A new period of infant brain development is reached during adolescence and early ...