Realms of Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood

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Realms of Cognitive Development in Middle
Childhood

• The Life Span
• Human Development for Healthcare Professionals,
  Chapter 6

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Physical and Brain-Related Changes

• Physical growth is slowing drastically
• Motor skills
• By age 6, gross motor skills are fairly well
  established
• By age 10, fine motor skills are established
• Brain Growth
• Frontal lobes growing
• Myelinization still occurring fairly rapidly
• Initial development of logic skills

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Cognitive Development

• Piagets Concrete Operations
• Occurs from roughly ages 6 to 12
• Knowledge is constructed, not simply stamped in
• Construction occurs as a process of accommodation
  and assimilation
• Children at this age are capable of learning how
  to reverse relationships
• Formal operational thought occurs when children
  can start to evaluate their own ideas.

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Achievements of the Concrete Operational Child

• Memory and attention
• Memory Terminology
• Sensory Memory
• Short-term (working) memory
• Long-term memory
• Rehearsal
• Recognition and Recall
• Declarative semantic and episodic
• Nondeclarative procedural

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Achievements of the Concrete Operational Child

• Memory and attention
• Improvements in digit span test
• Knowledge base
• Eyewitness memory
• Ability to chunk
• Advanced logical thinking
• Narrative Skills
• Memory Strategies
• metacognition

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Achievements of the Concrete Operational Child

• Problem solving Progress in Middle Childhood
• By the time children hit the age of 7 or 8, they
  have started to draw upon a wide variety of
  knowledge and experiences to help with solving
  problems. One area where this really takes off
  is with peer interaction.
• Cooperative Learning Environments
• Zone of Proximal development

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Social Cognition

• Perspective taking and social relationships
• Friendship Development

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