Child Development: Piaget's Cognitive Development

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Cognitive development is a very essential development for children because an expansion occurs of a child’s intellectual or mental abilities in this development. The child begins to process information or begin to recognize the environment. I child turning around to their mother’s voice is an example how the child recognizes a familiar voice. Children begin to organize information and use if appropriately. One of Piaget theories is how he believed that intelligence was not random, but was a set of organized cognitive structures that the infant actively constructed. The construction occurs through the adaptation to the environment. The factors in an environment are what helps formulate a child’s cognitive development and the process is on going. This development is what begins at an early learning and reflexive behaviors are what help support survivals. Cognitive development also allows for adaptation of the child in one’s environment. …show more content…
The true religious hunger of adolescence is to have God know me and value me deeply, and can be a kind of guarantor of my identity and worth in a world where I’m struggling to find who I can be. This is where one finds many people in churches and who are best described by faith that has essentially took form when they were adolescents. My faith development took major steps towards the end of my high school career and into my college years. I value my faith more now than I have ever before. I also have started to question my faith more and understand why different religions have different views from each other. I am also not afraid to talk about my faith like I was when I was little. I think it helped having gone to a private school my whole life; this really helped me develop my spiritual development. My relationship with God as grown stronger the older I have gotten and I value this

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