Physical and Cognitive Development

The cognitive development phase during childhood years consists of decision-making, idea learning, remembering, problem -solving, and understanding thoughts derived from past experiences from childhood through adolescence, and into adulthood.   When one perceives, gains understanding, and thinks of the interaction from the world around them, factors are learned, and genetic influences comes from cognitive development and or often modeled by a child’s teachers and parents.   A child develops how to interact and understand other people during the childhood years and how to interact with one’s external environment (Sternberg & Grigorenko, 2001). Factors like intelligence, language learning approach, information processing, reasoning, memory, and idea learning and understanding affect cognitive development during childhood years (Blumberg, 2004). Cognitive development has been studied historically by psychologist in children in a variety of ways, and explained in different manners. Many psychologist believe that one’s surroundings solely represents cognitive development, while others believe one’s genetic making, or situational circumstances influences cognitive development. To defend their findings and information most psychologists explain the developmental cognitive stage differently.
A person’s cultural surroundings is something explained as a highly influence on cognitive development. This means that one’s cultural background; food, beliefs, language, and customs play a big influence on cognitive development.   Cognitive development is explained as a cultural process and “according to cultural practices children develop knowledge and thinking skills” (Gauvain, 2011).   When taking cultural contributions into account, it adds values to understanding cognitive development.   While studying a child’s development, practical and theoretical issues that are researched by culture are encouraged and culture should be considered much more than anything else in a child’s life....