Child Development: Social/Emotional and Cognitive

Question 1

Social-Emotional/Cognitive Development at 1 month

Answer 1

· Engages in exploratory play (0-2 years)

· Smile

· Cooing

· Recognizes parents/forming early cognitive schemes/associations

Question 2

Social-Emotional/Cognitive Development at 6 month

Answer 2

· Stranger anxiety

· Babbling

· Develops object permanence

· Develops early awareness of cause-effect relationships (hits object to hear sound, etc.)

Question 3

Social-Emotional/Cognitive Development at 9 month

Answer 3

· Wave “goodbye” and play “paddy-cake”

· More goal-directed behavior

Question 4

Social-Emotional/Cognitive Development at 12 month

Answer 4

· “Mama/dada”

· Imitates parents

· Solicits helps from parents to achieve goals

· Uses trial and error

Question 5

Social-Emotional/Cognitive Development at 24 month

Answer 5

· Engages in symbolic play (2-4 years; mostly parallel play) – supports language development

o Begins to imitate parents’ domestic activities

· Follows 2-step commands

· Speaks in 2 word phrases

· Can put toys away with reminders

· Can operate mechanical toys/buttons

· Complex thought processes replace trial and error

· Can complete puzzles with jumbo knobs and shape sorters

Question 6

Social-Emotional/Cognitive Development at 36 month

Answer 6

· 3 word sentences

· Puts toys away without reminders

· Develops figure ground (3-5 years)

Question 7

Social-Emotional/Cognitive Development at 4-7 YEARS

Answer 7

· Creative Play – developing mastery of skills that support school and work activities. Child begins to engage more in cooperative groups.

· Develops form constancy

· Can complete simple parquetry puzzles

· Can complete jigsaw puzzles around age 6

Question 8

Social-Emotional/Cognitive Development at 7-12 YEARS

Answer 8

· Games – child participates in paly with rules, competition, social interaction and opportunities for skill development. Friends become an important source of validation.

· Empirical-Inductive thinking: Rules are best understood when applied. Child solves problems with the information that is obvious and present.

Question 9

Social-Emotional/Cognitive Development at 11-18 YEARS

Answer 9

· Hypothetical-deductive thinking: the ability to analyze and plan. Child can hypothesize many ways to solve problems and draw from past and present experiences to imagine the consequences of various actions.

Question 10

At what age can a child recognize shapes and manipulate them into a shape-sorter?

Answer 10

21-24 months

Question 11

At what age can a child attend to the shape of things and use them appropriately?

Answer 11

18-21