Cognitive Development in Infancy and Childhood

After studying this module, you should be able to:

Contrast cross-sectional designs and longitudinal designs

.Give examples of cohort effects.

Explain how psychologists infer the cognitive abilities of infants.

List and describe Piaget's stages of cognitive development.

Discuss two methods of inferring the concept of object permanence.

Give examples to show that infants develop cognitive abilities gradually.

Overview: This purpose of the week 4 discussion board is to examine developmental psychology Answer prompt 1. Then select and answer one prompt from prompts 2-5. Refer to Chapter 5 to answer the prompts.

Instructions: Respond to prompts in paragraph form (200-400 words). Post to the main discussion for your initial post by Friday at 11:59 p.m.. Then, reply to 2 students in ~50 words.

Prompt 1: Describe 3 topics from Chapter 5 that you found interesting.

Prompt 2: Describe the stages of prenatal development, what teratogens are, and steps mothers can take to reduce the risk of harming the embryo and fetus.

Prompt 3:Describe the abilities that newborn infants possess and how they actively interact with their environments.

Prompt 4:List the stages in Piaget's model of cognitive development, explain the concepts that are mastered in each stage, critique Piaget's theory of cognitive development, and describe other theories that complement and expand on it.

Prompt 5: Summarize the physical and cognitive changes that occur for boys and girls during adolescence, and explain how adolescents develop a sense of morality and of self-identity.