CHAPTER-3 COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
Definitions of Cognitive Development:
- Cognitive development is the construction of thoughtprocesses, including remembering, problem solving,and decision-making, from childhoodadolescence to adulthood.
- Cognitive development refers to how a person perceives, thinks, and gains understanding of his or her world through the interaction of genetic and learned factors. Among the areas of cognitive development are information processing, intelligence, reasoning, language development, and memory.
- The theory of Cognitive Development, first developed by Jean Piaget, proposes that there are four distinct, increasingly sophisticated stages of mental representation that children pass through on their way to an adult level of intelligence.
- Cognitive development is field of study in a neuroscience and psychology focusing on a child's development in terms of information processing...
- Continual learning and development through engaging in activities that prevent deterioration of existing skills and nurture new ones.
- Concerning how the individual thinks and react.
Meaning of Cognitive Development
Cognitive development is an important aspect of growth, embracing the various mental abilities. Mental development includes such abilities as attending, perceiving, observing, remembering, imagining, thinking, solving problems, and growth of intelligence as well as of language. These abilities grow and mature with age. In spite of general pattern of mental development, each individual grows and matures with age. In spite of a general pattern of mental development, each individual grows and develops in his own unique manner.
The various mental abilities are inter-related and develop as a whole. They are inter-dependent. Moreover, mental development is a continuous process. The factors that affect mental development include maturation, learning and education. Mental development is a function of the nervous system, especially of the brain.