COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

1. What is ?

   • It is the set of transformations that occur in the course of life

2. Cognitive processes of Piaget

   • Scheme
     • structure of the individual person to interpret information
   • ASSIMILATION
     • is a mental processes occurs, the child incorporates new findings
   • ACCOMODATION
     • : is a mental processes the child adjusts information of new schemes

3. PRIMARY REACTIONS

   • The child repats experiences that attract his attention
   • when the baby feels pleasure by sucking his finger and sucks it again.

4. SECONDARY REACTIONS

   • The child starts experimenting by touching because if you observe what happens.
   • The child develops his sense of performance “ you can see an object Then it is not there.
   • For example: A child usually cries if he does not see mother.

5. Stage preoperational (2- 7 YEARS )

   • The child begins to represent reality throught symbols for example the child no longer cryes when his mother leaves.
   • EGOCENTRISM
   • The child only sees reaity from his point of view