Cognitive/Intellectual Flashcards
What is intellectual development?
It’s about learning. It is how individuals organise their minds, ideas and thoughts to make sense of the world they live in.
What is physical development?
It’s through the senses by touching, tasting, smelling, listening and playing.
What is cognitive development?
It’s the construction of thought processes. This includes remembering, problem solving, and decision making, from childhood through adolescence to childhood.
What are the aspects to intellectual development?
- language development
- problem solving
- memory
- moral development
- abstract thoughts/creative thinking
Language development:
Essential for organising thoughts.
Problem solving:
Important skill requires both to work things out and to make predictions.
Memory:
Required for storing, recalling and retrieving information.
Moral development:
Allows reasoning and making choices and informs the individuals how to act in particular situations and how to act towards self and others.
Abstract thoughts/creative thinking:
Essential for thinking and discussing situations and events that can’t be observed.
What is language acquisition?
The process by which people acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language, as well as to produce and use words and sentences to communicate.
What is language acquisition device?
A hypothetical module of the humans mind to account for children’s innate predisposition for language acquisition. LAD is an instinctive mental capacity which enables an infant to acquire and produce language.
What are the stages of language acquisition?
1] The pre linguistic period
2] The holophrastic period
3] The telegraphic period
4] The complex period
What is the ages in the pre linguistic period?
Birth - 10 months old.
What is the ages in the holophrastic period?
12 months - 18 months.
What is the ages in the telegraphic period?
2 years - 3 years.
What is the ages in the complex period?
3 years - 5 years.
What are encouraging language development for infants?
- blowing bubbles
- counting each step on stairs
- looking at picture books
- joining in with rhymes and songs