A2 - Intellectual development across the life stages Flashcards
What are the stages of intellectual development ?
Intellectual development :
- Infancy / Early childhood :
- Stages of rapid intellectual development.
- Adolescence / Early adulthood :
- Development of logical thought, problem solving and memory recall skills.
- Middle adulthood :
- Can think through problems and make sound judgements using life experiences.
- Later adulthood : Changes in the brain can cause short-term memory decline / slower thought processes and reaction times
Intellectual and language skills of children in Infancy / Early childhood ?
Intellectual and language skills :
- Brain grows rapidly during first few years of life.
- 12 month old baby will be saying first words.
- 2 year old able to name parts of their body.
- 5 year old able to construct complex sentences.
What are the stages of language development of children around 3 Months ?
Language development :
- Around 3 months :
- Begin to make babbling noises - learn to control muscles associated with speech.
What are the stages of language development of children around 12 Months ?
Language development :
- Around 12 months :
- Begin to imitate sounds made by carers e.g. ‘dada’
- Develops into using single words.
What are the stages of language development of children around 2 Years ?
Language development :
- Around 2 years old :
- Begin to make two-word sentences e.g. ‘cat goed’.
- Develop their vocabulary.
What are the stages of language development of children around 3 Years ?
Language development :
- Around 3 years old :
- Begin to make simple sentences ‘I want drink’
- Development in the ability to ask questions.
- Knowledge of words (vocab) grows rapidly
What are the stages of language development of children around 4 Years ?
Language development :
- Around 4 years old :
- Begin to use clear sentences that can be understood by strangers.
- Some mistakes with grammar e.g. ‘we met lots of peoples at the shops today.’
What are the stages of language development of children around 5 Years ?
Language development :
- Around 5 years old
- Can speak using full adult grammar - vocab. will continue to grow and formal grammar will continue to improve
- Can be expected to use language effectively by 5 years old.
What is encouraging language development of infants ?
Encouraging language development :
- Blow bubbles
- Play with puppets
- Watch and listen to other children
- Join in the action rhymes and songs
- Look at picture books
What is the encouraging language development of young children ?
Encouraging language development :
- Take part in circle time
- Take part in group activities
- Imaginary friends in ‘home corner’
- SHare stories and rhymes
- Play word games and riddles
What is the encouraging language development of adolescence ?
Encouraging language development :
- Read a wide range of books and journals
- Take part in group projects
- Discuss ideas
- Plan and deliver presentations
What are the 5 aspects associated with intellectual development ?
5 aspects :
- Language development: Essential for organising thoughts and to share and express ideas, important for clarification.
- Problem-solving: required both to work things out and make predictions about what might happen.
- Memory: required for storing, recalling and retrieving information
- Moral development: allows for reasoning and making choices, informing the individual how to act in particular situations and how to act toward ones self/others
- Abstract thoughts and creative thinking: essential for thinking / discussing situations and events that cannot be observed.
What did Piaget believe ?
Intellegence is fixed at birth, and children actively seek to understand the world they live in. Learning through experience, developing ‘schemas’ to make sence of the world around them.
What are the 4 stages of cognitive development ?
Sensorimotor (0-2 years) - children learn by using senses and thinking is without language.
Pre-operational (2-7 years) - pre-logical thinking is with language; words and symbols are used to help the child make sence of the environment
