Intellectual/Cognitive Development in Late Childhood

Intellectual/Cognitive Development in Late Childhood




As children grow older there intellectual thinking changes in many ways. From early childhood to late childhood there are many differences the child. The child goes from the preoperational stage to the concrete stage. Early logic is developing and the child can handle simple concepts within a limited framework. The two main people having to due with this stage is Piaget and Vygotsky.
In the six to twelve year range children can think about their own behavior and see the consequences for their actions. In the early stages of concrete thinking, they can group things that belong together. As children near adolescence, they master sequencing...