Intellectual Flashcards
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Infancy (0-2 years old)
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- Rapid development of cognitive skills
- They use all of their senses to explore the world around them
- Know their primary caregivers voice and smell
- Use sound to communicate from cooing and babbling to simple words
- Use gestures from smiling, nodding to waving and hugging
- Object permanence develops around 8 months
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Early childhood (3-8 years old)
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- Rapid development and cognitive skills from widening experiences and learning from others and formal education
- Skill of conversation starts to develop
- They develop egocentricism
- Can speak in sentences
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Adolescence (9-18 years old)
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- Can use abstract thinking
- Can problem solve and reason using hypothetical thinking
- Can see alternative perspectives and viewpoints
- Takes more risks due to the pre frontal still developing
4
Q
Early adulthood (19-45 years old)
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- Can use a full spectrum of thinking skills including pragmatic thinking
- Maturation of the pre frontal cortex is complete by 25, they can control their impulses
- Careers and career development
- Some adults may return to education
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Middle adulthood (46-65 years old)
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- Can use a full spectrum of thinking skills including pragmatic thinking
- Retirement from full time work
6
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Later adulthood (65+ years old)
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- Retirement but new hobbies and skills
- Degeneration of nervous tissue slowing thinking speed and reaction time
- Pathological brain changes may cause dementia
