What Is Cognitive Development?

Cognitive development is the development of human cognition from infancy to adolescence. It is an important research topic in child psychology.

Cognitive development is the development of human cognition from infancy to adolescence. It is an important research topic in child psychology.
Chinese name
Cognitive development
Foreign name
Cognitive development
Applied discipline
psychology
Application range
Developmental psychology

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Psychologists point out that the development of children's intelligence is revealed in various special activities. The activities of 5-year-old children have a preliminary purpose, enthusiasm and creativity. Their development is close to maturity, and they will express their meaning and communicate in language. At the age of six, he had considerable skills in language use. He had made progress in reading, writing, calculating, and using stones, wooden blocks, and toys for creative activities. By the age of 7, children's purpose in reading, drawing, creative games and other activities was stronger, and they were able to make self-criticism. They began to read myths and fables independently. By the age of 8-9, my interest in reading has expanded and deepened. I have begun to collect my favorite stones, bugs, stamps, etc., and read a wide range of books. Between the ages of 10 and 12, children's differentiated interests, ability to work independently, and active and rigorous scientific reasoning have all developed. Many children can do book research and write more creative reports on a particularly interesting topic.

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The development of children's language learning and the development of reasoning skills are the main indicators of the state of intellectual development. Many psychologists abroad have proved that the effectiveness of language learning depends on psychological maturity. Among them, Foster's research is unique. In order to understand the impact of speech-memory level on learning and problem solving, he took intellectual age as an important indicator of children's ability to learn. He took children 2 to 7 years old and 4 to 9 years old as subjects, and chose 8 stories with different plots as experimental materials. During the experiment, he read out eight stories one by one, and read each story 10 times. Each time he read aloud, he paused somewhere in the story and asked the children to go through the stories one by one as much as possible. If children read well, encourage them with praise. The children are then asked to recall the plot of the story. Studies have shown that children with intellectual age below 3 years and 2 months are psychologically immature and unable to remember these stories with a certain method. The average number of words they can remember is less than 5, which brings some difficulties to learning. . At the age of 5 years and 8 months, the memory ability gradually improves, and the average number of words they can recall has reached 60 to 70, which has brought convenience to learning. Experiments show that children's ability to read and remember generally begins to appear when they are 5 years old. Without psychological preparation in this regard, reading-memory cannot proceed smoothly.

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The state of preparedness for reasoning also affects children's learning. Reasoning ability is the premise for solving problems. Whether children are psychologically prepared for reasoning directly affects whether learning can proceed smoothly. In foreign countries, psychologists have done many researches on children's reasoning ability. Some experiments suggest that children between 3 and 5 years of age can already transfer the concept of self-discovery and reason based on previous experience to apply it to the context of new problems. This means that when the complexity of the problem is commensurate with the child's level of maturity, even 3-year-olds already have the conditions to reason. Some studies do not agree with this view, and believe that reasoning is a relatively advanced psychological activity, which requires children to reach a certain level of maturity, while children aged 3 to 5 do not yet have these conditions. Although there has been much debate on this issue, one thing is consistent: the development of children's reasoning ability increases with age. The younger the age, the lower the maturity level and the worse the reasoning ability; on the contrary, the older the age, the higher the maturity level and the stronger the reasoning ability. [1]

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