INTELLECTUAL/ COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN CHILD

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Hello everyone! Today i will take you through the journey of cognitive development in child. As an educationist, one of my major concern is in the area of thinking faculty of a child.

Intellectual Development

In discussing intellectual/cognitive
development, piaget's theory of cognitive development shall be the point of reference, essentially because it has a lot of implication for education. Jean piaget's theory of intellectual development developed from piaget's quest to investigate and know the intellectual development of a child.

The aim was to know how children think and reason, in order to know how to facilitate learning without overloading the brain. And also to know what should be expected from an individual and age group in terms of intellectual development. Piaget's theory of cognitive development will therefore be discussed using the intellectual age range grouping.

Sensory-Motor Stage( 0-2years)

Piaget refers to the scheme developed at this stage as sensory-motor stage. He describes the behaviour of the individual at this stage as that of very short retention and that of the incomprehensibility of existence.

The individual at this stage believes that what is out of sight is not in existence, i.e he regards whatever he sees as something existing and whatever he does not see as not existing.

This is highly observed among children between the age of 0-2 years of age(infancy). The development task for this stage is the accomplishment of object consistency i.e the ability of the child to reason to the level that an object taken away from his sight is still in existence.

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Pre-Operational Stage( 2-7 Years)

At this stage, the individual acquires language and symbol recognition which broadens his knowledge and interaction with objects and people. The problem solving skills of the child is just forming and taking shape, therefore the child lacks operational reversibility in thought and action i.e ability to reason that an operation or an activity could be reserved

The developmental task for this stage is the acquisition of centration. This refers to the ability to centre attention to a particular quality of an object or a problem e.g colour, shape, size,...The child concentrates very much attention on physical quality of an object and only one dimension to a problem, neglecting other aspects.

Concrete-Operational Stage(7-11 years)

The child at this stage of cognitive development think in a concrete manner and can only understand concrete things. He can not solve problems without the use of physical objects which he can see and manipulate.

Moreover, he can not think in abstract manner. Also at this stage, the child acquires decentration i.e ability to concentrate on more than one quality of an objector one dimension to a problem. The most important acheivement at this stage is the acquisation of conservation. The ability to recognise the constancy of a quantity in spite of the biasing and misleading physical appearance.

Formal Opertaional Stage(11 years above)

At this stage of cognitive development, the child mental faculty develops to the fullest, enabling him to be able to think logically and act rationally; showing flexibility in reasoning, consideration for alternative ways of solving problems and making generalization that are reasonable.

Also the child at this stage thinks in abstract manner. He is able to understand the principles underlying the performance of activities and therefore he is able to manipulate them to suit his own purpose and for his own convenience. The child at this stage combines all that he has acquired from the sensory-motor stage to the formal operational stage.

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