Cognitive Development And Cognitive Development

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I think that there is a connection between the cognitive shifts that children make between about five and seven of years of age. When I was 5-year old, I focused on situations like how things look or feel rather than logic. I had trouble focusing on deciding, and my perception of things was different at that age, I know that my cognitive development, while between the age of 5-7 adjustments in thinking and reasoning occur as a child slowly moved from preoperational thought to concrete operational thoughts. I always thought when I did things that everyone else was doing the same thing for example, like being driven to school by their mom each day, and it never hit me, until later in life, I learned that it wasn’t the case. Now, I’m working in a second-grade classroom as a substitute teacher and notice the same thing that I did between the ages of 5-7 a lot of students in the classroom are doing, such as thinking that everyone else is doing the same thing that they are doing. What makes me think this way is because when asking second grader questions they will answer as if everyone is doing it also. I think the second-grade students have developed certain aspects of conscious awareness of the existence of their memory And the logic behind the answer to what I had learned in my science class about sunlight, daylight, nighttime, sun, and moon this made me understand why. Also, between the ages of 7-11, I could tell time understand what money was I just didn’t know the true value of money like I know now and how hard it is to earn a lot of it. I also notice that I had a longer attention span I could sit at my desk longer without asking to go to the bathroom or fidgeting in my chair. I understood math, science and could do science experiments. I understood what my personal space was and other students personal space. I notice that I had a sense of identity, self-esteem and I were becoming more

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