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Cognitive Development - Coggle Diagram
Cognitive Development
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Classification
The developing ability to group, sort, categorize, connect, and have
expectations of objects and people according to their attributes
8 months: children distinguish between familiar and unfamiliar people, places, and objects, and explore the differences between them
18 months: children show awareness when objects are in some way connected to each other, match two objects that are the same, and separate a pile of objects into two groups based on one attribute
36 months: children group objects into multiple piles based on one attribute at a time, put things that are similar but not identical into one group, and may label each grouping, even though sometimes these labels are overgeneralized
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Imitation
The developing ability to mirror, repeat, and practice the actions of others, either immediately or later
36 months: children reenact multiple steps of others actions that that have observed at an earlier time
18 months: children imitate others actions that have more than one step and imitate simple actions that they have observed others doing at an earlier time
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Symbolic Play
Developing ability to use actions, objects, or ideas to represent other actions, objects, or ideas
8 months: children become familiar with objects and actions through and actions through active exploration. Children also build knowledge of people, action, objects, and ideas through observation
18 months children use one object to represent another object and engage in one or two simple actions of pretend play
36 months: children engage in make believe play involving several sequenced steps, assigned roles, and an overall plan and sometimes pretend by imagining an object without needing the concrete object present
Attention Maintenance
developing ability to attend to people and things while interacting with others and exploring the environment and play materials
8 months: children pay attention to different things and people in the environment in specific, distinct ways
18 months: children rely on order and predictability in the environment to help organize their thoughts and focus attention
36 months: children sometimes demonstrate the ability to pay attention to more than one thing at a time
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Cognitive development refers to the process of growth and change in intellectual/mental abilities
such as thinking, reasoning and understanding