First Semester

AY 2021-2022

Teacher EDUCATIOn
Program
Professional EDUCATion
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MYLA 1
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DR. SUSIE HOPE R. TOMOL

 Republic of the Philippines
ILOILO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY
Miagao Campus
Miagao, Iloilo

MODULE IN ED 1
THE CHILD AND ADOLESCENT LEARNER
AND LEARNING PRINCIPLES

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 Module 19
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT OF
THE PRIMARY SCHOOLERS
“If you become a teacher, by your pupils you’ll be taught”

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 O. Hammerstein

Introduction:

Jean Piaget is the foremost exponent of the theory on cognitive

development. According to him, intelligence is the basic mechanism of ensuring

balance in the relations between the person and environment. Everything that a

person experiences is a continuous process of assimilations and

accommodations. Piaget described four main periods in

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cognitive development. For Piaget, intellectual ability is not the same as different

ages.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Described the characteristics of children in the concrete operational stage

2. Explained the importance of information-processing skills and how
they affect the child’s cognitive development
3. Stated the different cognitive milestones in primary schoolers
Motivation:

Look at the semantic map below. Write down words which come to your mind when COGNITIVE D
Find a pair on line or any person whom you can interact with at home and
compare your answers.

COGNITIVE
DEVELOPMENT

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Discussion Questions:

1. What were the common ideas regarding cognitive development?

2. Are there new ideas regarding cognitive development which you found

intriguing?

3. With the advent of computer age, do you think cognitive development is

affected? Explain your answer?

Content:

Jean Piaget’s Concrete Operational Stage

Concrete operation – is the third stage of Piaget’s theory of cognitive

development. It spans from ages 7 to approximately 11 years. In this

developmental stage, children have better understanding of their thinking skills.

Children begin to think logically about concrete events, particularly their own

experiences, but have difficulty understanding abstract or hypothetical

concepts, this most of them still have the hard time ar problem-solving.

 Logic

Concrete operational thinkers, according to Piaget, can already

make use of inductive logic. Inductive logic involves thinking

from specific experience to a general principle. But at this

stage, children have great difficulty in

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 using deductive logic or using a general principle to

determine the outcome of a specific event.

 Reversibility

One of the most important developments in this stage is an

understanding of reversibility, or awareness that actions can be

reversed. An example of this is being able to reverse the order

relationships between mental categories. (For ex. In arithmetic,

3+4 = 7 and 7 - 4 = 3).

Cognitive Milestones

Elementary-aged children encounter developmental milestones.

They develop certain skills within a particular time frame.

Sequential manner – need to understand numbers before they can

perform a mathematical equation.

Each milestones that develops is dependent upon the previous milestone

they achieved. Up until age 8, a child learns new skills at a rapid pace.

Specifically, young primary school-aged children can tell left from right.

They are able to speak and express themselves develops rapidly. During play,

they practice using the words and language they learn in school. They learn to

understand time and days of the week. They enjoy rhymes, riddles, and jokes.

Their attention span is longer. They can follow more involved

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stories. They are learning letters and words. By six, most can read words or

combination of words.

Information Processing Skills

Several theories argue that like the computer, the human mind is the

system that can process information through the application of logical rules and

strategies. They also believe that the mind receives information, performs

operations to change its forms and content, stores nad locates it and generates

responses from it.

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ACTIVITY/THINGS TO DO:

1. Study the diagram on information processing below. Write your insights on

how you can apply the Information-Processing. Theory in primary- school

children.
LONG-TERM MEMORY

Sensory Memory
External
Stimulus Initial Processing Retrieval Elaboration
and Coding

Response

Forgotten

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Repetition SHORT-TERM
MEMORY

Forgotten

2. Give 3 applications each of Piaget’s cognitive theory and that of

information processing theory in the teaching-learning process.

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3. Look for articles and studies, either online or printed, on the influences of

family on cognitive development. Share important points of your research in

class.

Reflection:

From the module on the Cognitive Development of Primary

School Children, I learned that…

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 GOOD LUCK AND GOD BLESS!

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