The document summarizes several theories of cognitive development: - Information processing theory views thinking as information processing through sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory. - Bio-cultural theory integrates biological and social/cultural influences on development. - Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory explains development through relationships between people and environmental contexts like family, school, and culture.

1. ''By virtue of being born
to humanity, every
human being has a right
to the development and
fulfillment of his
potentialities as a
human being.''
- Ashley Montagu

2. Theories Of
Cognitive
Development
Prepared by;
Aria Mica U. Fernandez
BSEd-1B

4. Cognitive
Development
- Concerned with the
development of a
person’s thought
processes.

5. Habituation
- Type of learning in which
repeated or continuous
exposure to a stimulus
reduces attention to that
stimulus.

6. Dehabituation
- Increase in attention or
responsiveness of the child
to a certain stimulus.

7. Information
Processing
Theory
- takes the human mind
as a system that
processes information.

8. Three Major
Components of
Information
Processing
Theory

9. •Sensory memory - holds information
associated with the senses just long
enough for the information to be process
further.
•Short Term Memory - functions as a
temporary working memory, whereby
further processing is carried out to make
information ready for long-term storage
or for a response.
•Long Term Memory - represents our
permanent storehouse of information,
capable of retaining an unlimited amount
and variety of information.

10. Four
Fundamental
Assumptions of
Information
Processing
Theory

11. 1. Thinking is information
processing.
2. Mechanisms of change
are important to
describe.
3. The cognitive system is
self-modifying.
4.Careful task analysis is
crucial.

12. Bio-cultural
Theory
-an integration of both biological
anthropology and social/cultural
anthropology.
- involves integrating how cultures
approach health and healing based on
gender, class, age, education, and
their own traditional experience with
illness and healing.

13. Microgenetic Analysis - a
detailed examination of how a
child solves a problem on a
particular learning situation or
in the succeeding learning
activities that immediately
follow.
Metacognition - individual's
knowledge and control of
cognitive activities.

14. Nativism
- views human as endowed with
genetic traits seen in all
members of the species,
regardless of differences in their
environments.

15. 
Sociobiology
- focuses on the study of
society using the methods and
concepts of biological science.

16.  Ethology
- points to genetically
survival behaviors assumed
to have evolved through
natural selection.
- emotional relationships are
important for survival.

17. Brofenbrenner's
Ecological
Theory
- explains development in terms of
relationships between people in
their environments.
- ''contexts'' as Brofenbrenner's
calls them.

18. Context Of Development
1. Macrosystem
(Cultural
Context)
- contains the
values and beliefs
of the culture in
which a child is
growing up.

19. 2. Exosystem
(Socioeconomic
Context)
- are the cultural
institutions which
have indirect
influence on the
child's
development.

20. 3. Microsystem
(Immediate
Context)
-includes those
units that have
directly influence
on the children.
Examples;
families, school,
religious
institutions and

21. 4. Mesosystem
- consists of the
interconnections
between these
components.

22. References;
Developmental Characteristics of
Young Children - Aurelia T. Estrada
Child and Adolescent
Development
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