Early Cognitive Deveopment
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Psychology I
Mr. Basnight
Oct, 15 2012
Cognitive Development via different means
“Brain is wider than the sky; brain is deeper than the sea”, says the narrator in the video, Secret Life of the Brain. Flexible and adaptable, child’s brain has twice as many neuron connections as that of the adolescence. The environmental influence plays a huge role in the early intellectual development. For instance, certain cadence or rhyme of words stimulates the auditory sensor of a fetal. Such mechanism has strong correlation to a child’s long-term memory derived during the prenatal stage. Psychologist further emphasizes the significance of the early development, assuming that the first one to three years are pivotal period in a child’s mental development because of the rapid growth of brain synapses. With such theory, believers have suggested infants to have abundant amount of mental stimulations and critical experiences to enrich child’s mental capacity. This idea of producing a “baby genius” has exaggerated and oversimplified the concept of early cognitive development because the brain grows continually in all throughout the childhood and the synapse develops even into the later years (Tavris, Carole.). The early cognitive development is worthy of discussion because of its overarching influences in an individual’s life. The cognitive development is a complex concept which becomes evident through the development of emerging cognitive behavior, language, and higher cognitive function. In the early year of the infants, the development of emerging cognitive behaviors becomes evident. The abilities to see, hear, smell, touch, and taste play as a fundamental tools to enrich child’s experiences. Babies learn to distinguish shadows, lights and the voices of their moms and the other woman. By 4 to 6 months of age, infants become conscious of their name and other rudimentary words, such as
Psychology I
Mr. Basnight
Oct, 15 2012
Cognitive Development via different means
“Brain is wider than the sky; brain is deeper than the sea”, says the narrator in the video, Secret Life of the Brain. Flexible and adaptable, child’s brain has twice as many neuron connections as that of the adolescence. The environmental influence plays a huge role in the early intellectual development. For instance, certain cadence or rhyme of words stimulates the auditory sensor of a fetal. Such mechanism has strong correlation to a child’s long-term memory derived during the prenatal stage. Psychologist further emphasizes the significance of the early development, assuming that the first one to three years are pivotal period in a child’s mental development because of the rapid growth of brain synapses. With such theory, believers have suggested infants to have abundant amount of mental stimulations and critical experiences to enrich child’s mental capacity. This idea of producing a “baby genius” has exaggerated and oversimplified the concept of early cognitive development because the brain grows continually in all throughout the childhood and the synapse develops even into the later years (Tavris, Carole.). The early cognitive development is worthy of discussion because of its overarching influences in an individual’s life. The cognitive development is a complex concept which becomes evident through the development of emerging cognitive behavior, language, and higher cognitive function. In the early year of the infants, the development of emerging cognitive behaviors becomes evident. The abilities to see, hear, smell, touch, and taste play as a fundamental tools to enrich child’s experiences. Babies learn to distinguish shadows, lights and the voices of their moms and the other woman. By 4 to 6 months of age, infants become conscious of their name and other rudimentary words, such as
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