Child Development

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This paper considers the proposition that cognitive and intellectual development in children is the beginning of the process of maturation. It explains that the child's biological development occurs through organization and adaptation to the environment and the same occurs for cognitive development, as various researchers have shown. The author claims that the process of cognitive development begins as soon as the child begins to interact with his or her environment and with the social group he or she finds each day.

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"As Hock (2005) notes, cognitive and intellectual development in children is the beginning of the process of maturation (p. 134). The child's biological development occurs through organization and adaptation to the environment, and the same occurs for cognitive development, as various researchers have shown. The process of cognitive development begins as soon as the child begins to interact with his or her environment and with the social group he or she finds each day. The process begins early in development, and it has been shown that even very young children, 2 and 3 year olds, grasp the existence of the mental world, the realm of mental states and processes that are marked off from that of physical objects or behavioral acts. Research has shown that children of this age and younger also understand much about the distinction between reality and not reality, and they can easily distinguish, in certain clear cases ..."

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