Cognitive Development In Middle And Lat
Cognitive Development in Middle and Late Childhood
Cindi Gould
PSY-32353
Professor Linkin
Ottawa University
What are the affects, if any on the Cognitive Development in Middle and Late Childhood in a two parent-working household? Does a child that comes from a home that has a stay at home parent fare better cognitively? Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget theory of cognitive development is a comprehensive theory about the nature and development of human intelligence. Merriam-Webster defines Cognitive as ” of, relating to, being. involving conscious intellectual activity (as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) and based on or capable of being reduced to empirical factual knowledge.”(Merriam-Webster.com, 2014) Piaget defines the cognitive development in middle childhood as “the concrete operational Stage” The concrete stage begins at age 7 and ends at age 11, this is a flexible, logical and organized time, much more so than early childhood. Bain development contributes to two basic changes in information processing they are decline in the time needed to process information and gains in inhibition. Middle childhood also proves that attention is more leveled and controlled. Vocabulary, grammar, and pragmatics greatly increase in the middle and late childhood years.(m psych.ku.edu) This paper takes an in depth look at the positive and or negative affects on the cognitive Development in middle and late childhood in a tow parent household. I am a working mother of three children. My youngest is a girl of 7 my middle is a son of 10 and my oldest is a girl of 14 all well within the age range that I am researching. My husband and I both work to provide for our family. I stayed at home while my children were young and then went back to work full time when they were all in school and just recently began to wonder if I was actually doing them more harm cognitively. I am also an elementary school teacher and am surrounded
Cindi Gould
PSY-32353
Professor Linkin
Ottawa University
What are the affects, if any on the Cognitive Development in Middle and Late Childhood in a two parent-working household? Does a child that comes from a home that has a stay at home parent fare better cognitively? Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget theory of cognitive development is a comprehensive theory about the nature and development of human intelligence. Merriam-Webster defines Cognitive as ” of, relating to, being. involving conscious intellectual activity (as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) and based on or capable of being reduced to empirical factual knowledge.”(Merriam-Webster.com, 2014) Piaget defines the cognitive development in middle childhood as “the concrete operational Stage” The concrete stage begins at age 7 and ends at age 11, this is a flexible, logical and organized time, much more so than early childhood. Bain development contributes to two basic changes in information processing they are decline in the time needed to process information and gains in inhibition. Middle childhood also proves that attention is more leveled and controlled. Vocabulary, grammar, and pragmatics greatly increase in the middle and late childhood years.(m psych.ku.edu) This paper takes an in depth look at the positive and or negative affects on the cognitive Development in middle and late childhood in a tow parent household. I am a working mother of three children. My youngest is a girl of 7 my middle is a son of 10 and my oldest is a girl of 14 all well within the age range that I am researching. My husband and I both work to provide for our family. I stayed at home while my children were young and then went back to work full time when they were all in school and just recently began to wonder if I was actually doing them more harm cognitively. I am also an elementary school teacher and am surrounded