1. Physical & Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
Chapter 7
Physical & Cognitive Development in Early Childhood 01

2. Physical & Motor Development
Between 2 & 6 years old...
Grow 12 inches
Gain 5 lbs. per year
Legs make up 45% of body
Lose baby teeth
Physical & Motor Development 02

3. 03 Glia Cells Brain Development
Even the toys we play with shape our brains…. 03

4. Influences on Physical Development
Genetic Elements
Nutrition
Disease
Psychological Disturbance
Socioeconomic Status
Secular Trends
Tanner 04
Physical growth is NOT determined by our heredity alone….

5. Growing Motor Skills 05

6. The Special Case of Drawing
Drawing by a 3 year old
Drawing by a 4 year old 06
Drawing by a 5 year old

7. Cognitive Development
Piaget’s Preoperational Period
Realism
Animism
Artificialism
It’s ALIVE!!! 07
“Man made the sun from a match.”
Thought Sequence

8. Preoperational Thought
Piaget’s 5 Preoperational Behavior Patterns
Deferred Imitation
Symbolic Play
Drawing
Mental Images
Language 08
Reproductive vs. Anticipatory Images

9. Limitations of Preoperational Thought
Egocentrism
Centration
Classification
Conservation
Reversibility
Limitations of Preoperational Thought
Egocentrism 09
Conservation

10. Information-Processing Theory
Span of Apprehension
Rehearsal
Organization
Retrieval
What are the names of the seven dwarfs?
Goofy Bashful
Sleepy Meanie
Smarty Doc
Scaredy Happy
Dopey Angry
Grumpy Sneezy
Wheezy Crazy 10

11. Children’s Theory of Mind
Age 3
Age 2
Age 4 11
False-Belief Test