Cognition and Language
Question 1: Identify language milestones during a child’s first 24 months.
Answer 1: Children of all nationalities and ethnicities go through the same milestones in language acquisition. From birth, all children cry, and after a few months all children make cooing sounds. After five months, children begin to understand particular words, and by six months most are babbling. After seven or so months of development, children demonstrate special understanding of sounds in their native language, and after about eight months a child will begin to use gestures to communicate. After a year, a child is ready to begin saying his first words. After a year and a half, the child will most likely undergo a vocabulary spurt. In the months leading up to his second birthday, the child is likely to begin uttering simple sentences.
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Question 2: Discuss language development in preschool children.
Answer 2: As a child moves from age three to age six, he makes a great deal of linguistic progress. At three, children can pronounce all of the vowels and the majority of the consonant sounds, even some difficult ones like str and mpt. Preschoolers are good at noticing rhymes, and often entertain themselves by interpolating new sounds into familiar words (e.g., by saying, “ball, call, dall.”). Children at this age acquire the rules of morphology and begin to use plurals and verb tenses accurately. At age four, children begin to use articles and prepositions, and incorporate alternate syntaxes to differentiate a question from a statement. During this period, the vocabulary increases markedly.
Question 3: Discuss social cognition in the relationships of children.
Answer 3: Social cognition is thought about relationships and interactions with other people. As children enter school and develop friendships, they must learn to handle adversarial and cooperative situations. According to Kenneth Dodge, children move through five stages in the development of social cognition. In the first stage, the child decodes social cues. Then, the decoded information must be interpreted. The child then considers possible responses. In the fourth stage, the child chooses a response. The fifth and final stage is to enact the selected response.
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