Normal Cognitive Development: An Introduction To Normal Cognitive Development

In this essay, the author

• Explains pavlov's theory of classical conditioning. he cultivated these associations by differencing through occurrence of the first event and anticipation of another event.
• Explains that operant conditioning modifies behaviour, i.e. a child is rewarded for good behaviour in school (token economy) and gets gold star on test. thorndike's experiments with cats found that the cats remembered how to free themselves for food.
• Explains that cognitive development is the development of intelligence a human acquires from infancy to adulthood, using intellect, conscious thought, and problem-solving techniques.

• Explains pavlov's theory of classical conditioning. he cultivated these associations by differencing through occurrence of the first event and anticipation of another event.
• Explains that operant conditioning modifies behaviour, i.e. a child is rewarded for good behaviour in school (token economy) and gets gold star on test. thorndike's experiments with cats found that the cats remembered how to free themselves for food.
• Explains that cognitive development is the development of intelligence a human acquires from infancy to adulthood, using intellect, conscious thought, and problem-solving techniques.
• Explains that bandura studies showed that we learned behaviours ordinarily through observation rather than direct instruction, he called this observational learning.
• Explains that piaget believed that children's thought process is learned through adaptation by learning how to do things that they make sense of themselves.
• Explains vygotsky's concept of the zone of proximal development (zpd) by highlighting the use of ‘scaffolding’, a term further developed by bruner.
• Explains that children develop through different ways of thinking and are active in their own learning according to their experiences constantly struggling to make sense of the world.