Intellectual development

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Intellectual development

Intellectual development is also known as mental development or cognitive development. This type of development is where the child expands the mind where he/she can recognise, reason, know and understand things.

Day by day the child’s mind develops. Each day the child learns about people, things, new skills, how to communicate, memories and gain more experiences.

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As the child’s mind develops, he/she becomes more intelligent. How intelligent the child becomes will depend on two main factors.

  • Genes – these control the amount of natural intelligence he/she has.
  • Environment – the uses the child makes of his/ her intelligence will be very much influenced by the environment in which he/she grows up.

Throughout childhood, the genes and environment continuously interact to produce people whose minds develop in a great variety of ways. E.g., some children are very artistic or musical talent, some are talented at languages or maths, high ...

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