 Today’s Agenda: ◦ Finish Emotional and Social Development  2 worksheets ◦ Begin Intellectual Development

 “I’ll never do that again!” ◦ Why? When?  We learn by trial and error

 Definition: the ability to interpret or understand everyday situations and to use that experience when faced with new situations or problems  Shaped by heredity and environment ◦ Certain limits by heredity but greatly influenced by environment

 Incidental: Unplanned learning ◦ Cause and effect ◦ Push something on table, it falls off  Trial and Error: Child tries several solutions before finding one that works ◦ Shapes into a sorter ◦ Pull the cats tail or pet the cat

 Imitation: Learning by watching and copying others ◦ Follow older siblings actions  Directed learning: Learning that results from being taught directly ◦ Teaching a child to read  As a group, brainstorm as many examples of assigned type of learning as possible

 Today’s Agenda: ◦ Review what we learned about intellectual development ◦ Finish intellectual development ◦ Review  Test Wednesday on ages 1 to 3 ◦ Emotional and Social, Physical and Intellectual

 Begin to form concepts ◦ Categories of objects and information  Example: fruit, colors, shapes ◦ 3 Principles that guide learning of words:  Labels are for whole, not parts  “dog” is the whole dog, not just a part  Labels apply to the group to which an object belongs, not to the object  “dog” is not just that dog, but all that look like it  Objects can have only one label  Hard to understand “Mom” can also be “she”

 Maturity brings more understanding ◦ Begin to categorize  Grass and trees are both green  Age 1 ½ they know big and little, by 3 understand medium/middle ◦ By 3, understand boy and girl, woman and man ◦ Young age believe all things that move are alive  Clouds, washing machine, toys ◦ Begin to understand the concept of time  “Soon, before, after” more than tomorrow or yesterday

 Intellectual activity can be broken down into 7 areas: ◦ Attention ◦ Memory ◦ Perception ◦ Reasoning ◦ Imagination ◦ Creativity ◦ Curiosity  All 7 develop throughout life, but most in this age group

 Lots of sensory input all day long  Have to filter through it all  Attention span is VERY short  Big difference between a 1 year old and a 3 year old

 Without memory, there would be no learning ◦ Experiences that leave no impression cant affect later actions or thoughts  As children grow, they can react to situations by remembering a prior response ◦ 1 yr old frightened by a dog will be afraid of all animals for a long time ◦ 3 yr old will remember it was that particular dog and only be afraid of it  By age 2, toddlers have a good memory

 How they learn about the world  Information received through the senses  Caregivers play a key role in development ◦ Talk about what they are doing, seeing, feeling ◦ Use specific descriptions (look at the black dog)  They ask LOTS of questions ◦ Why? How? ◦ Opportunities for them to learn ◦ Important not to brush them off

 Critical skills to solve problems and make decisions  Important in recognizing relationships and forming concepts  Basic skills develop at 4-6 months  Between 1 and 3 gradually learn more skills ◦ Shape sorter – develops this skill through trial and error, than remembering ◦ Practice with decision making –giving choices

 Starts to show around age 2  Enhances learning by allowing them to try new things, be other people  Encourage imagination  Until age 5, children have a hard time knowing where the line is between reality and fantasy

 Imagination is used to produce something ◦ Finger painting ◦ Drawing  Sometimes parents don’t support children being creative – why?

 Fuels their learning  Important not to be overprotective and let them explore  They’re into everything – they’re learning!