DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
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are at risk for learned helplessness as they begin to doubt their own mental strategies
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expect all people to interpret events in the same way
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make an abrupt improvement in cognitive self-regulation
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realize that people can extend their knowledge by making mental inferences
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Detailed explanation-1: -School age children are able to concentrate for a longer period of time in set tasks, enabling them to think, understand and find reasons to simple problems. They have a greater understanding of a variety of concepts and memory also improves dramatically.
Detailed explanation-2: -Cognitive or intellectual development means the growth of a child’s ability to think and reason. It’s about how they organize their minds, ideas and thoughts to make sense of the world they live in.
Detailed explanation-3: -Concrete Operational Thought. From ages 7 to 11, children are in what Piaget referred to as the concrete operational stage of cognitive development (Crain, 2005). This involves mastering the use of logic in concrete ways.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Theory of Cognitive Development by Jean Piaget, the Swiss psychologist, suggests that children’s intelligence undergoes changes as they grow. Cognitive development in children is not only related to acquiring knowledge, children need to build or develop a mental model of their surrounding world (Miller, 2011).