Six Stages Affecting A Child's Intellectual Development

The way a parent cares and tends to their infant may affect the child's intellectual development. The book Child Care and Child Development contains information and studies about child care. For instances, if you abuse your child this can lead for a child not to communicate right away. This affects their intellectual thought process by not letting or helping a child further their learning because of being abused, another example in this text is not having a relationship with a child can affect their learning style.
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By six months old, a baby should stop and listen when a caregiver says his or her name. The child should be able to distinguish and recognize their name from other words that are spoken. An infant may understand when you gently punish him or her by saying no. When a parent talks to their child, he or she may try to communicate back at you. If the infant sees a caregiver hide a toy under a blanket, the child will remember and look for the toy under the blanket. According
These stages have been changed and reviewed over the past ten years as new researchers and discoveries have obtained. The six stages consist of the reflexive activity, primary reactions, secondary reactions, coordination of secondary strategies, tertiary circular reactions, and beginning or pictorial thought. While these sub-stages sound highly confusing and complicated, they will be explained in more detail in the next paragraphs to simplify them and highlight the important aspects of each. The first sub-stage is reflexive activity, this approximately lasts from birth to one month. According to Piaget, while babies are in reflexive actions such as sucking when offered a bottle or the breast. Infants are learning about their environment and how they can interact with it. Babies do not think about behaving reflexively; they simply act out those reflexes