Cognitive development
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Cognitive development
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articles: Cognitive development, Theory of cognitive development, and Neo-Piagetian theories of cognitive development
Cognitive development is primarily concerned with the ways in which infants
and children acquire, develop, and use internal mental capabilities such as
problem solving, memory, and language. Major topics in cognitive development
are the study of language acquisition and the development of perceptual and
motor skills. Piaget was one of the influential early psychologists to study
the development of cognitive abilities. His theory suggests that development
proceeds through a set of stages from infancy to adulthood and that there is an
end point or goal. Other accounts, such as that of Lev Vygotsky, have suggested
that development does not progress through stages, but rather that the
developmental process that begins at birth and continues until death is too
complex for such structure and finality. Rather, from this viewpoint,
developmental processes proceed more continuously, thus development should be
analyzed, instead of treated as a product to be obtained.
K. Warner Schaie has expanded the study of cognitive development into
adulthood. Rather than being stable from adolescence, Schaie sees adults as
progressing in the application of their cognitive abilities.
Modern cognitive development has integrated the considerations of cognitive psychology and the psychology of individual differences into the interpretation and
modeling of development. Specifically, the neo-Piagetian theories of
cognitive development showed that the successive levels or stages of
cognitive development are associated with increasing processing efficiency and working memory capacity.
These increases explain progression to higher stages, and individual
differences in such increases by same-age persons explain differences in cognitive
performance. Other theories have moved away from Piagetian stage theories, and
are influenced by accounts of domain-specific information
processing, which posit that development is guided by innate
evolutionarily-specified and content-specific information processing
mechanisms.
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental_psychology
Vocabulary list:
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1. Capabilities
= kemampuan
2. Perceptual
= persepsi
3. Infancy
= masa bayi
4. Adulthood
= masa dewasa
5. Efficiency
= efisiensi
6. Adolescence
= masa remaja
7. Progression
= progresi
8. Instead
= malah
9. Treated
= Ditangani
10. Successive
= berturut-turut
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