Information Processing In Different Stages Of Child Development
In today's series, we will be outlining amazing features of how children process information at their different stages of development.This series validates our perception that children are not just the hope of every nation, but that they are an opportunity to correcting detrimental patterns, ideologies and perceptions.
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- New borns can remember sounds over a twenty four hour period.
- Two months old can recognise visual patterns and retain them for 24 hours.
- When three months old children are presented with a picture of their mother and a picture of a stranger, they are able to differentiate between the two.
- Six month olds can recognise a face that they saw for only two minutes up to two weeks later.
- Children at this stage can become easily confused when a situation becomes complex.
- Attention can be gained by use of sound, colour and movement
- Children at this stage has more memory to store words, with more use of it (words)
- Children at this age begin to use strategies for memory such as association.
- At this stage, the ability of selective attention, focusing only one stimulus at a time is limited but improves RAPIDLY.
- Children at this stage have the ability to pay attention even when there is interference. This stage is more better than early childhood.
- At this stage, there is an ability to control attention from important to unimportant informations.
- Children at this stage of development begin to employ verbal memory strategies, without being prompted as well as more sophisticated memory strategies such as categorization.
- Rates of forgetting decline significantly.
Chinenye Chukwumezie
Child/Adolescent Advocate
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