Later Adulthood
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- Created on: 10-01-23 11:51
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- Intellectual Development/ Infancy and Early Childhood
- Types of intellectual development
- Language development - essential for organising thoughts and to share and express ideas. Important for clarification
- Problem solving - essential for working things out and to make predictions about what might happen
- Memory - Essential for storing, recalling, and retrieving information
- Moral development - essential for reasoning and making choices. Informs the individual how to act in particular situations. How to act towards self and others
- Abstract thoughts - essential for thinking and discussing situations and events that cannot be observed
- Stages of intellectual development across the lifespan
- Infancy and early childhood - stages of rapid intellectual development
- Adolescence to early adulthood - development of logical thought, problem solving, and memory recall skills
- Middle adulthood - Can think through problems and make sound judgements using lif experiences
- Later adulthood - Changes in the brain can cause short term memory decline and slower thought processes and reaction times
- Infancy and Early Childhood
- Infants brains grow rapidly during the first few years of their lives
- Brain development develops the learning process of:
- Memory
- Language
- More making sounds than words
- Thinking
- Reasoning
- Piaget Theory
- Contains 4 stages of development between certain ages
- Only linked to children and infants intellectual development
- Information processing
- Nurture (environment) plays a large role in how we process information
- After processing the information by paying attention to it we store it on our short term memory
- Example
- Eye receives the visual information
- The brain makes sense of the information received
- We display how we have perceived the information in our behaviour
- The brain makes sense of the information received
- Eye receives the visual information
- Types of intellectual development
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