Health and social care 3 Flashcards
What are the 5 different aspects of Intellectual Development ?
Language development, Memory,Abstract thoughts and Creative thinking, Moral Development and Problem Solving.
What is the importance of Language Development ?
Language Development is important for organising thoughts and to share and express ideas. Its also important for clarification.
What is the importance of Problem Solving ?
Problem Solving is a skill allowing individuals to work out things and give predictions on what might happen.
What is the importance of Memory ?
Memory is needed to store, recall and retrieve information.
What is the importance of Moral Development ?
Moral Development allows for reasoning and making choices, informing an individual of how to act in a particular situations.
What is the importance of Abstract thoughts and Creative thinking ?
Abstract thoughts and Creative thinking are essential for thinking and discussing situations and events that cannot be observed.
What stage has rapid intellectual development ?
In Infancy and childhood stage has a rapid development of intellectual development in this life stage. This means 90% of brain cell connection are in place when a child is 5 years old.
What stage does Abstract thoughts and Creative thinking take place in?
Abstract thoughts and Creative thinking take place in the Adolescence life stage [9-18 years old]
What else happen in the Adolescence life stage in intellectual development ?
In adolescence there is a development of logical thoughts, problem solving and memory skills. Adolescence can make judgements based on logical and realistic thinking.
What happens in the Middle Adulthood life stage in intellectual development ?
In Middle Adulthood adults can think through experiences and make sound judgements based on past experiences.
What age do brains grow rapidly ?
Brain’s grows rapidly during the first years of a child’s life, where they learn new skills and abilities.
What happens in Later Adulthood life stage in Intellectual development ?
In Later Adulthood adults have a changes in their brains what cause short-term memory decline and slower thought processes and reaction times
What ability do young children have ?
Young children have the ability to both understand and use language.
What happens to a baby’s brain at birth ?
At birth a babies brain is on average 30% the size of their adult brain.
What happens to a 2 year old brain ?
At the age of 2 year old a child’s brain in on average 80% of their adult size brain.
How far has language developed by 3 months old baby ?
At 3 months Infants begin to make babbling noises as they learn to control the muscles associated with speech.
How far has language developed by 12 months old baby ?
At 12 months Infants begin to imitate sounds made by carers such as “da da”. This develops into using single words.
How far has language developed by 2 year old baby ?
At 2 years old infants begin to make two-word sentences, such “cat goed”. The Infant begins to build their vocabulary.
How far has language developed by 3 year old child ?
At 3 years old children begin to make simple sentences, such as “I want drink”. This develops into the ability to ask questions , “where we go?”. Knowledge of words [vocabulary] grows very rapidly.
How far has language developed by 4 years old child ?
At 4 years old children begin to use clear sentences that can be understood by strangers. Children can be expected to make some mistakes with grammar “we met lots of peoples at the shop today”.
How far has language developed by 5 years old child ?
At 5 year old children can speak using full adult grammar. Although vocabulary will continue to grow and formal grammar will continue to improve, most children can be expected to use language effectively.
How can language skills be developed in Infants ?
Infants can develop their language skills playing puppets, watch and listen to other children, look at picture books and joining in actions rhymes and songs.
How can language skills be developed in young children ?
Young children can develop their language skills by taking part in circle time, taking part in group activities, imaginary play, share stories and rhymes, play word games and riddles.
How can language skills be developed in Adolescence ?
Adolescence can develop their language skills by reading a wide range of books, taking part in group activities, discuss ideas and by planning and delivering presentations.
