Developmental Links between Children’s Working Memory and Social Relations

Running head: COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN
Cognitive Development of Children
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Research Question
What is the role of education, culture and the social relations in the development of the cognitive
abilities of the children?
Saxe, G. B. (2015). Culture and cognitive development: Studies in mathematical understanding. Psychology
Press.
This article argues that culture that the children have around them influences the cognitive development
of children. The main purpose of the article is to discuss about how the understanding of the children is
enhanced with the help of the cultural practices. The article states that the cognitive development of the children
takes place under the age of five that helps them in understanding the concepts related to mathematics. The
author of the work is Dr. Geoffrey Saxe who has presented the inter-relationship that exists between the culture
and the cognitive development of the children. The article talks about how the out-of-the-school practical
lessons helps in strengthening the attention and the memory of the children. The children develop the attention
skills along with the problem-solving skills under the age of five. The children develops the ability of
controlling their attention along with memory that helps them in attaining the goals. It helps them in solving the
problems and in finding the connection that exist between the ideas. The ability of logic and the reasoning is
developed in the children that helps them in understanding the reason behind the things. The cognitive
development that takes place in the children helps them in the area of auditory processing that proves to be
foundational for the element of the reading. The article states that children learn using the skills that helps them
in thinking and learning with the help of their cognitive development. The weak skills of the children can be
strengthened with the help of cognitive training that can play an important role in improving their cognitive
skills. The article brings out that cognitive assessment can help in assessing how the children are performing
cognitively that helps in the identification of their strength along with the weakness. The article talks about the
fact that the challenging mental exercises can help in improving the cognitive skills of the children. The article
can help in arriving at the research question as it talks about how the ability of reasoning can help in developing
the attention skills of the children. The importance of this article is owing to the fact that it talks about how
nature along with nature plays a dominant role in developing the cognitive abilities of the children. The

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significance of this piece of the writing is due to fact that it has talked about the importance of the practical
lessons that can sharpen the cognitive abilities in the children.
Turner, J. (2017). Cognitive development and education. Routledge.
This article states that the parents play an important role in the development of the cognitive abilities of
the children. This article elaborates on the fact that children think in a different manner as compared to that of
the adults. This article states that the children of the different ages think in a different manner. The article talks
about how thinking in the children evolves from that of infancy through the childhood. The writer of the article
is Johanna Turner who has expertise in the arena of the cognitive development. In that of sensorimotor stage of
intelligence, the children become conscious regarding their individual potential and within the group. The
article discusses that sensorimotor stage takes place from the time of the birth of the baby till the baby is around
two years of age. The sensori motor stage helps the children in becoming aware about the world that is around
them. The senses of the children develop at this stage that helps them in interacting with the environment. This
article discusses that children perceive themselves only and not the society that is around them. The article talks
about the fact that children performs experiments in this stage with that of the circular actions. The
development of the sensori motor skills in the children helps them in acquiring the new reflexes along with the
broader elements. The intentional behaviours in the children are exhibited at this stage along with the mental
combinations. The article helps in answering the research question since it talks about how the development of
the sensori motor skills helps in developing the attention span of the children. This article talks about the fact
that parents play an important role in stimulating the children that helps them in boosting their intelligence. The
infant learns to adapt the reflexes to environment that aids in the cognitive development of the children. This
article states that infants become more responsive to the people with the help of their cognitive development
that helps them in eliciting the pleasing response. The article talks about the fact that cognitive development
helps the children in responding to that of the people along with the objects that helps the children in
anticipating the events. This article states that it helps the children in understanding that the objects exist in an
independent manner irrespective of the perception that an individual has for them. The article can be said to be
important as it talks about how the right conditions can help in developing the memory of the children.