sábado, 19 de marzo de 2011

Cognitive development

The child's cognitive development has to do with the different stages in the course of which his intelligence is developed. Children's cognitive development has intimate relations with the emotional or sentimental, as well as the social and biological development. All these aspects are involved in the development of intelligence in children.

There must be a sound biological basis for the deployment potential and a supportive environment and stimulating. Besides cognitive development is subject to contingencies that might occur during growth such as diseases or injuries that affect the biological structure.
                                             
One of the theories that best explain the stages of the development of intelligence in children is that of Jean Piaget. Basically, this theory says that intelligence is being developed first, from the reflections and insights. That is, from what the sensory motor stage, where the child is experiencing actions and behaviors develop, based on the experience of the senses and motor skills.

Then begins to develop a more abstract level of thought, where complexity it is intelligence. The mechanisms of assimilation and accommodation are achieving the child incorporates the experience and conceptualize and internalize.

                                                   
    
Other theories such as psychoanalysis emphasize the emotional or affective and have points in common with the cognitive theory such as in the development of intelligence and learning that will be common in children, the search Repeated experiences of satisfaction.

That is, will find ways to carry out actions that allow to obtain satisfaction or pleasure and this is something structural life. In sum, we summarize the stages of cognitive development in Piaget Detailed:
sensory motor stage

Preoperative Stage

Stage operative

formal operational stage

                                                   

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