This is the slide presentation of Foundation of Education quoted form a textbook used in IFL, RUPP.

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2. Child Development
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT, COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT, AND SOCIO-EMOTIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
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3. Outline
 Introduction to Child Development
 Physical Development
 Cognitive Development
 Evaluating Piaget
 Socio-emotional Development
 Summary
 Quick Quiz
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4. Physical Development
At no other time in a person’s life will there be so many changes
occurring so fast as during the first few years.
 Infancy
 Newborn has no fear of
water and persist
throughout coughing
blinking yawning.
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5. Physical Development
 In the span of 12 months, the infant becomes capable of
sitting anywhere, standing, stooping, climbing, and often
walking.
 6 or 7 month of age grasping, sucking, stepping, startle.
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6. Physical Development
 During the second year, growth decelerates, but rapid increases in
such activities as running and climbing take place
 Childhood
 The third birthday, they are beginning to be able make their want and
have a great sense of self-control.
 The growth and development of the brain underlie the young child’s
improvement in motor skill.
 Physical activities are essential for children to refine their developing
skills.
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7. Cognitive Development
Jean Piaget, the famous Swiss
developmental psychologist
observed his three children and
wrote the books on cognitive
development based on this
observation.
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8. Cognitive Development
There are four stages of cognitive development in Piage’s theory
such as:
 The Sensorimotor Stage
 The Preoperational Stage
 The Concrete Operational Stage
 The Formal Operation Stage
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9. Cognitive Development
 The Sensorimotor Stage:
 The infant constructs an understanding of
the world by coordinating sensory
experience with physical actions.
 An infant progresses from reflexive,
instinctual action at birth to the beginning
of symbolic thought toward the end of the
stage.
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10. Cognitive Development
 The Sensorimotor Stage:
Object permanence is Piaget’s term
for one of infant’s most important
accomplishment: understanding that
objects and events continue to exist
even they can not directly be seen.
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11. Cognitive Development
 The Preoperational Stage:
 The child begin to represent the
world with worlds and images.
 These words and images reflect
increased symbolic thinking and go
beyond the connection of sensory
information and physical action.
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12. Cognitive Development
 The Preoperational Stage:
Operations: mental representations
that are reversible.
Egocentrism: inability to distinguish
between one’s own perspective and
someone else’s perspective.
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13. Cognitive Development
 The Concrete Operational Stage:
 Involve using operations, and logical
reasoning replaces intuitive reasoning, but
only in concrete situation.
 It is characterized by a lack of abstract
thinking, but classification skills are present.
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14. Cognitive Development
 The Formal Operational Stage:
 Involve using operations, and logical
reasoning replaces intuitive reasoning,
but only in concrete situation.
 It is characterized by a lack of abstract
thinking, but classification skills are
present.
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15. Cognitive Development
 The Formal Operational Stage:
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning:
adolescents’ ability to develop hypotheses,
or best hunches, about way to solve
problems, such as an algebraic equation.
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16. An Evaluation of Piaget’s Theory
Piaget’s Contribution
 Founded cognitive development
 Stated children construct their knowledge
 First attempt to explain the development
 Reasonable accurate overview of how children of different
ages think
 Major influence in social and emotional development, and
education
 Influenced future research
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18. 18Quick Quiz
1. What is cognitive development?
2. How many stages of Piaget’s theory of cognitive
development? What are they?
3. Explain briefly about the first stage and second stage of
Piaget’s theory in cognitive development.

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