Intellectual Development across the life stages

Question 1

What are the 5 important aspects associated with intellectual development?

Answer 1

• Language Development
• Problem Solving
• Memory
• Moral Development
• Abstract thought

Question 2

What is the language ability of a 3-month-old

Answer 2

Babbling noises as they begin to control the muscles around sleep

Question 3

What is the language ability of a 12-month-old?

Answer 3

Beginning to imitate sounds, to make single words.

Question 4

What is the language ability of a 2 year old?

Answer 4

Starts to make 2 word sentences.

Question 5

What is the language ability of a 3 year old?

Answer 5

Simple sentences, knowledge of vocabulary grows very rapidly.

Question 6

What is the language ability of a 4 year old?

Answer 6

Clear sentences, with some grammar mistakes.

Question 7

What is the language ability of a 5 year old?

Answer 7

Speak with full adult grammar, vocabulary continues to grow.

Question 8

How can we encourage language development in infants?

Answer 8

• Blow bubbles
• Play with puppets
• Watch and listen to other children
• Join in with action rhymes and songs
• Look at picture books

Question 9

How can we encourage language development in Young children?

Answer 9

• Take part in circle time
• Take part in group activities
• Imaginary play
• Share stories and rhymes
• Play word games and riddles

Question 10

How can we encourage language development in adolescence?

Answer 10

• Read a range of books and journals
• Take part in group projects
• Discuss ideas
• Plan and deliver presentations

Question 11

What did Piaget believe about Children’s thinking?

Answer 11

He believed that 4 year olds cannot use abstract logical thinking, and that infants use egocentric thinking. And that only until the age of 7 can the child think logically.

Question 12

What and which ages were Piaget’s stages of cognitive development?

Answer 12

Sensorimotor: Birth - 2 years
Preoperational: 2-7 years
Concrete operational: 7-11 years
Formal operational: 11 - 18 years

Question 13

What is the Sensorimotor stage?

Answer 13

The stage where children think by interacting with the world around them through their eyes, hears, hands and mouth. And that a baby only remembers and thinks about the world at 18 months old.

Question 14

What is the Preoperational Stage?

Answer 14

The stage where children represent their earlier sensorimotor discoveries with symbols. Development of language and male believe takes place.

Question 15

What is Concrete Operational Stage?

Answer 15

The stage where children use logical problem solving providing the issue is concrete. They understand simple logical principles

Question 16

What is Formal Operational Stage?

Answer 16

The stage where abstract logical thinking takes place allowing adolescents to reason through symbols that do not occur in the real world. Allowing them to think through complicated ideas without a concrete image.

Question 17

What is a Schema?

Answer 17

Category of knowledge as well as the process of acquiring knowledge.

Question 18

How do children develop through Schemas?

Answer 18

A child develops concepts about the world around them, making them in a state of equilibrium. New situations where new information is present, upsets the schemas, leaving the child in disequilibrium. This information is then accommodated, when the original scheme is altered or a new one comes in place, allowing the child back into equilibrium.

Question 19

What does Piaget believe about conservation?

Answer 19

Children can only start to conserve at the operational stage. By the age of seven, they can understand that quantity stays the same, even if its appearance stays the same

Question 20

What is egocentrism?

Answer 20

Is the young child’s inability to see a situation from a different person’s point of view. They are absorbed in their own world and that speech is used to externalise their thinking.

Question 21

criticisms of Piaget:

Answer 21

• Based his study on a small number of children.
• There is more fluidity to the age rages he gives, that he overestimates and underestimates cognitive ability of children.
  -Cognitive development is not part of the maturation process but rather depending on the child’s environment and quality of education.

Question 22

What is Language Acquisition Device?

Answer 22

The preprograming of children acquire language and evolves naturally: the unfolding of biological potential.

Question 23

Why does Chomsky believe in a LAD?

Answer 23

Because he believes that children could not have learnt language through imitation alone, because grammar and the syntax of adults are irregular. Chomsky believes that babies do need to experience other people using language, but they do not need to be trained to speak.