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Cognitive Development, Ages 6 to 10 Years

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Overview

Around age 6, children start to change the way they think about the world. They leave behind the preschooler's egocentric thinking and start to learn more mature ways of understanding.

A typical first-grader is able to perform simple addition and subtraction. He or she usually starts to read and write sentences. These tasks require that the child consider information from several sources, evaluate it, and come up with an interpretation.

These cognitive abilities continue to evolve over the next 4 to 5 years. During this time, the child does increasingly complex, sequential, and symbol-based tasks. These tasks include interpreting the context of a paragraph and composing stories. With these new cognitive skills, the child can appreciate humor and word games more.

Board games are a great way to enhance cognitive development. Games that use memory skills, such as checkers, tic-tac-toe, and hangman, are especially useful. Don't worry if your child "needs" to win games while playing with you. But also help your child learn games that he or she can play alone, such as memory matching.

Children this age are also now able to think of themselves in more sophisticated ways. This more advanced thinking brings about comparisons to others, self-examination, and changing self-concept and self-esteem.

Still, reasoning is immature. In the kindergarten and early elementary school years, children's reasoning is tied to the here and now. They aren't good at problem solving. That's because it requires abstract thinking, being able to imagine other perspectives or alternatives, and being able to anticipate needs and actions. For example, children in this age group usually don't fully understand the concept of time. They may know that dinosaurs lived on Earth more than 200,000 years ago. But they don't really understand the vast time span between then and now. Still, cognitive skills mature quickly, and problem solving also improves.


Créditos para Cognitive Development, Ages 6 to 10 Years

Current as of: October 24, 2023

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