Answer to Question #161582 in English for Jesujemisin

Question

Describe how information processing capabilities improve during childhood

Answer 1

Children start to have executive attention, however, they can still attend salient during tasks. Most children become interested in the human mind - theory of minds. Most can sustain memory, however, some can make up false memory. They do not use strategies to remember, the use simple, goal directed problem. Most know when someone have a false belief. They developp cognitive and metacognitive abilities.

cognitive development

-By ages 2 to 5 years, most children have developed the skills to focus attention for extended periods, recognize previously encountered information, recall old information, and reconstruct it in the present.

-Between the ages of 2 and 5, long-term memory also begins to form, which is why most people cannot remember anything in their childhood prior to age 2 or 3.

-Children ages 2 through 5 also start to recognize that there are often multiple ways to solve a problem and can brainstorm different (though sometimes primitive) solutions.

-Between the ages of 5 and 7, children learn how to focus and use their cognitive abilities for specific purposes. e.g memorize list of words

-Children this age have also developed a larger overall capacity to process information. This expanding information processing capacity allows young children to make connections between old and new information. e.g. knowledge of alphabets.

-During this age, children's knowledge base also continues to grow and become better organized.

Metacognition

-This is the ability to think about thinking

-Between ages 2 and 5 years, young children realize that they use their brains to think but has less understanding of what a brain is.

-By ages 5 to 7 years, children realize they can actively control their brains, and influence their ability to process and to accomplish mental tasks e.g. first graders able to use number line.