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.