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COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT


COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
Cognition
 The term cognition is derived from the Latin word “cognoscere”  which means “to know” or “to recognise” or “to conceptualise”. It refers to the mental processes by an organism learns, remembers, understands, perceives, solves problems and thinks about a body of information. Cognition progresses in stages with increasing levels of complexity and hence the phrase “cognitive development” which is the stages a child goes through conceptualizing the world at different age levels. Cognition refers to all activity, processes, and products of the mind.

Cognitive Development
The term cognitive development refers to the process of growth and change in intellectual/mental abilities such as thinking, reasoning and understanding.
Cognitive development is a field of study in neuroscience and psychology focusing on a child's development in terms of information processing, conceptual resources, perceptual skill, language learning, and other aspects of brain development. It includes the acquisition and consolidation of knowledge. Infants draw on social-emotional, language, motor and perceptual experiences and abilities for cognitive development.
Cognitive development is the construction of thought processes, including remembering, problem solving , and decision-making, from child hood through adolescence to adulthood . It 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 . They are attuned to relationships between features of objects, actions, and the physical environment. But they are particularly attuned to people. Parents, family members, friends, teachers, and caregivers play a vital role in supporting the cognitive development of infants by providing the healthy interpersonal or social-emotional context in which cognitive development unfolds.
Cognitive Development describes how these mental processes develop from birth until adulthood. The acquisition of the ability to think, reason, and problem solve. It is the process by which people's thinking changes across the life span. Cognitive Development is gradual orderly, changes by which mental process become more complex and sophisticated

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