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Understanding Intellectual Development of Infants

Understanding Intellectual Development of Infants. Chapter 10.1 Child/Human Development. Learning in the First Year. Perception- learn from senses 4 abilities in growing/ thinking power: 1. Remembering (1 st few months) 2. Making associations 3. Understanding cause and effect

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Understanding Intellectual Development of Infants

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  1. Understanding Intellectual Development of Infants Chapter 10.1 Child/Human Development

  2. Learning in the First Year • Perception- learn from senses • 4 abilities in growing/ thinking power: • 1. Remembering (1st few months) • 2. Making associations • 3. Understanding cause and effect • 4. Paying Attention

  3. Learning in the First Year • Turn to page 322-323 • Which of these developments have you observed in infants? • Describe a situation and tell me how you responded to the infant’s actions? • How did that response affect the infant?

  4. Piaget’s Theories • Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist • Found that intellectual development is followed by a pattern. • Children learn to master one thinking skill before they can master another • Children cannot be forced by parents or teachers to develop understanding faster • He discovered 4 major periods

  5. Jean Piaget (1896-1980)

  6. The Sensorimotor Period • Sensorimotor period- birth- age 2 • Babies learn primarily through their senses and their own actions • Object permanence- (10 mo.) – realize that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight • Turn to p. 326: 6 sub stages

  7. The Preoperational Period • Preoperational Period- age 2-7 • Children think about everything in terms of their own activities and of what they perceive at the moment (Conservation) • Understand abstract terms like love and beauty • May not be aware of what is real or make-believe • Concentrate on one thing at a time

  8. The Concrete Operations Period • Concrete Operations Period- • 7-11 years old • Children can think logically but still learn best from direct experience • Understand conservation • Classification (ex. Food, animals)

  9. The Formal Operations Period • Formal Operations Period- • Age 11- adulthood • Children become capable of abstract thinking • Able to think about what might have been the cause of an event without really experiencing the cause • Can form ideas and understand deeper

  10. Using Piaget’s Ideas • Symbolic Thinking- the use of words and numbers to stand for ideas • Piaget showed that young children learn in their own way other than adults

  11. Questions • What do you think is a criticism of Piaget’s ideas? • What are the four stages of Piaget’s intellectual development? • What stage do you believe a kindergartener is in? • Why might children in the preoperational period be able to understand such abstract terms as love and beauty?

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