Infant Cognitive & Language/Communication Vocab

To develop new skills, knowledge and the ability to acquire and process new information through play and interaction with others and the environment

• The Purpose of Language Development and Communication

• Approaches to Learning

• The Purpose of Cognitive Development

• Cognitive Domain

To develop the ability to use language to communicate with others. As infants and toddlers develop their ability to understand and use language to communicate, they also increase their skills and abilities in influencing others, which in turn affects their learning in all other domains.

• The Purpose of Language Development and Communication

• Approaches to Learning

• The Purpose of Cognitive Development

• Cognitive Domain

Ways children orient themselves to learning a wide range of skills. This domain entails the inclinations, dispositions, attitudes, habits and styles that reflect the many ways that children involve themselves in learning. A child’s approaches to learning are regarded as critical for their success and school readiness.

• The Purpose of Language Development and Communication

• Approaches to Learning

• The Purpose of Cognitive Development

• Cognitive Domain

The ability to stick with an activity to completion or satisfaction.

• Persistence

• Initiative

• Curiosity

• Inventiveness

The power or ability to begin or to follow through energetically with a plan or task.

• Problem Solving

• Reasoning

• Curiosity

• Initiative

Children’s natural tendencies as active learners to explore all aspects of the environment, from objects and people, to ideas and customs. It is through discovering the answers to their own questions that children construct knowledge

• Curiosity

• Problem Solving

• Creativity

• Initiative

The ability to express one’s own unique way of seeing the world.

• Creativity

• Curiosity

• Inventiveness

• Problem Solving

The ability to create with the imagination, devise or contrive

• Creativity

• Reasoning

• Exploration and Discovery

• Inventiveness

The ability to analyze information and situations in order to form judgments.

• Problem Solving

• Reasoning

• Inventiveness

• Initiative

The ability to seek solutions to problems. It allows children to construct knowledge and build on prior experiences and integrate new information.

• Persistence

• Problem Solving

• Inventiveness

• Reasoning