Cognitive Development Process
Three systems act as the steps of processing. As the information is passed onto higher levels, several more sequential steps, many of which are not fully understood, process it. Each of these stages is both highly organized in themselves, and does their own internal processing of the data. They also act as the input for the next step. Hence, information processing in the brain can be considered a cascaded relay system. Where each of these highly organized stations acts as a separately relay that both does its own processing and is the input for the next stage. This theoretical paper is a discussion of a mechanism for cognitive development that has its basis in recent discoveries in neural network designs, which is one of the current models of the brain. It reviews how these advances can be integrated into a holistic theory of mental functioning by adding to them several concepts from Piaget's theory and Maharishi's Levels of the Mind from Vedic Psychology. Such a structure creates a model of development that shows how underlying structures of the mind relate to the sequential developmental stages outlined by developmental theorists. By utilizing attention, neural circuits have the capacity to create a set of stable patterns that c
One Theory is that those synapses that are not stimulated by sensory or internal experiences are lost. Toward the end of the period of synapse decreases [around seven years old]. The learning ability of the brain function diminishes. Meaning, there exist a "window of opportunity" for some brain functions. (1) Imagine the world as a neonate what it would be like to come from warm, wet, and dark place. Only to is thrust into a bright, noisy, and sensory filled world. Now that they are here, they most learn to make sense of it all. Infants seem to be 'preprogrammed' to survey the world around them. Research done by Robert Fantz in 1961 found that two-month-old infants preferred pictures of a human face to any other picture. However, this all has to do with age, at the age of 5-10 weeks they are more interested in complex patterns; at this age vision is not fully developed. By 15-20 week they prefer pattern that are face like, and stare longer at those patterns. Between these ages language is developing and Piaget believes child learn to classify things through Assimilation and Accommodation. Assimilation is the process of putting new information into categories that already exist. Accommodation is the process of putting new information into new categories. Like seeing a Pit-bull and calling it "doggie" is a form of assimilation. A child will also see a cat and call it "doggie" but when corrected calls all the things that look like a "kitty" in to the 'Kitty' category. I will finally state the cognitive development. Piaget researched a standard for cognitive development. He believed that there are four stages of cognitive development: Sensorimotor stage, Preoperational stage, concrete-operational stage and formal operational stage. Sensorimotor Stage is the stage of newborns where all they can do is react to the environment and not interact; this stage is mainly development of perception with motor activity. Infants Begin to realize the relation between physical movement and the result they sense and perceive.
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