What is cognitive development??

Answer 1

cognitve refers to the mind and thought process. So cognitive development would refer to how well one grows in the area of thinking and developing thoughts and sentences.

Cognitive development refers to the development of the ability to think and reason. Children (typically 6 to 12 years old) develop the ability to think in concrete ways (concrete operations) such as how to combine (addition), separate (subtract or divide), order (alphabetize and sort), and transform (change things such as 5 pennies = 1 nickel) objects and actions. They are called concrete because they are performed in the presence of the objects and events being thought about.

Answer 2

Jean Piaget studied children's levels of understanding at different ages. Very complicated, but generally, beginning knowledge begins with a Sensori-Motor Stage where babies learn of their world by feeling, mouthing, crawling--MOVING. Pre-Concrete is the age that little children begin drawing their world--making representative marks/drawings that represent the objects in their world. and starting to assign names to objects. (Bears can look like doggies to them as they have the general outline of the body shapes, etc.) Concrete Cognitive stage is the verbalization of their world--naming, describing in more detail, ascribing different qualities of bears and of dogs, e.g., counting, verbalizing their own needs and wants which widens their explorations. Formal Concrete Cognitive stage is when one set of concepts are compaired to another set or to a number of other sets. Piaget ascribes different age ranges to each stage--which of course vary great among children. It is not meant to be rules nor to judge children's IQ. It simply describes the general path of congitive understanding as the child ages. He goes on into moral development; time/space understanding as well. As I said, very complicated with many other concepts "explaining" how children think and reason.

Answer 3

the unfolding of innate knowledge and abilities