Cognitive Development Of Infants And Toddlers. Environments and materials. As an educator the ability to interact with infants and toddlers will help develop their cognitive skills and ultimately enhance their brain development as they reach milestones by helping them witness and react to daily curiosities in their environment e g.
These two milestones goal directed behavior and object permanence are the highlights and major accomplishments of infant cognitive development. Many factors influence cognitive development including genes prenatal events i e before or during birth and aspects of the child s environment. After reaching a year of age children s physical social and cognitive development seems to grow by leaps and bounds.
The term cognitive development refers to the process of growth and change in intellectual mental abilities such as thinking reasoning and understanding.
Your toddler s language will really start to develop as she begins to understand the emotion and tone used during all communication. Many factors influence cognitive development including genes prenatal events i e before or during birth and aspects of the child s environment. This is also when infants develop object permanence which is the ability to understand that something still exists even if it can t be seen. Negative behavior experiencing what they learn e g.
