Cognitive Development
Watch this video which explains what cognitive development is. You may want to make notes to help you and support your assignment:
Cognitive development is related to thinking skills, problem solving and also decision making. It helps us understand the world around us.
We develop these processing, language learning and reasoning skills as we mature.
Group Task 1
JEAN PIAGET, a famous psychologist, developed The Theory of Cognitive Development which describes how a child begins to understand the world. There are 4 stages within this theory, in your groups, each of you research one stage look at the age range, the skills developed and examples of these. Then feedback to the rest of the group.
TASK
There are 5 key areas that need to be looked at when discussing cognitive development. In your groups, research the 5 areas listed below and feedback to one another:
Language (look at the work of Noam Chomsky and LAD)
Memory (think about different ages)
Reasoning (make sure you define what the term means and outline what can impact reasoning)
Thinking (discuss both conscious and unconscious processes)
Problem solving (identify the problem solving cycle.)
Final Group Task!
In your groups continue working on the power point which you created for D1. You are now required to choose ONE life-stage and outline all the cognitive development that will occur in that life-stage. Please make sure the slide is accurately labelled and it is clear which life-stage you have chosen. This life-stage will apply to all of D2.