Cognitive Development
Jean Piaget
What are cognitive skills?
Cognitive skills are the core skills your brain uses to think, read, learn, remember, reason, and pay attention.
Name 2 strategies that can be used to enhance cognitive skills and awareness.
1. Read notes or study materials out loud
2. Use word associations and verbal repetition to memorize
3. Study with others. Talk things through
4. Use activity-based study tools, like roleplaying or model building.
5. Study in small groups and take frequent breaks.
Cognitive Ability tests can be divided into three (3) distinct categories.
What are these categories?
1.Verbal Cognitive Ability
2. Non-Verbal Cognitive Ability
3.NUMERICAL COGNITIVE ABILITY
True/False
Cognitive Skills are obtained in specific chronological stages
True
How many stages are in this theory of development?
List them...
4 stages
sensorimotor stage
preoperational stage
concrete operational stage
formal operational stage
What is the role of cognitive skills in the workplace?
In the workplace, cognitive skills help you interpret data, remember team goals, pay attention during an important meeting and be a more effective employee or business owner.
State at least 2-3 ways that effective cognitive skills can be displayed/ seen in individuals.
• quickly interpreting and analysing data
•paying attention
•retaining information during meetings
•Problem- solving
•Thinking quickly on your feet
What are the techniques that can be used to recognize cognitive abilities and difficulties
Cognitive Ability Tests
Psychometric tests
Iq TESt
diagnostic Assessments
• improves comprehension - hands-on approach makes the learning meaningful and promotes comprehension.
•develop problem solving skills - enhances your ability to develop this core skill and helps them to apply it to every aspect of their job.
•improves confidence - your ability to handle challenges at work
•enhance long term learning - helps you merge old and new information and apply both effectively.
Provide the age range of each stage and what happens in each
sensorimotor stage0–2 years
preoperational stage2–7 years
concrete operational stage7–11 years
formal operational stage12+ years
List the cognitive skills (HINT: These are divided into 9 categories)
1. Sustained attention
2. Selective attention
3. Divided attention
4. Long-term memory
5. Working memory
6. Logic and reasoning
7. Auditory processing
8. Visual processing
9. Processing speed
List some ways that we can boost/improve cognitive thinking.
1. Playing games
2. Engage socially
3. Get enough sleep
4. Keep moving
5. Practice mindfulness
6. Try new things
7. Learn a new language
Provide some examples of the effect of cognitive problems
•has negative effects on those around
•may become irritated or distressed
•direct impact on relationships
•exacerbate other problems
•effect on relationships with healthcare professionals
Name a strategy that promotes your social and emotional development
•Begin the day with human connection
•Group Activities
•Role-Playing
•Encourage reflection
•Conflict Management
List the 7 cognitive strategies and explain what each is.
Rehearsal This concept can be perceived as students attempt to study for a test.
Elaboration is a cognitive learning strategy that involves any enhancement of information that clarifies or specifies the relationship between information to-be-learned and related information, i.e., a learner's prior knowledge and experience
Mnemonics are strategies that can be applied when learning unfamiliar concepts
• involve pairing unfamiliar concepts with familiar concepts in an attempt to increase the chance a concept will be remembered. It involves recording information into a more easily remembered or more meaningful format. etting the ABCs to music to memorize the alphabet.
•Using rhymes to remember rules of spelling like "i before e except after c"
•Forming sentences out of the first letter of words in order (acrostics), such as "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally," to remember the order of operations in algebra.
•Visualization as a learning strategy is most commonly seen in the language arts department. Teachers may prompt students to visualize what is happening in the text to boost comprehension and recall before, during, and after reading.
•cognitive monitoring include planning, checking, self-testing, assessing one's progress, and correcting one's errors.