Weaver Girls Cognitive Development
[2023-11-01 02:45:47]
The four young girls I care for, McKenzie, Maggie, Meredith, and Morgan are sisters with different age and development level. McKenzie is 8 years old, Maggie is six years old, Meredith is three years old, and Morgan is sixteen years old. Every girl is at various stages of cognitive, physical, psychological, social, and emotional development. I have prepared a 4 year babysitter for girls, and can observe their growth and change in many different ways. Since they are from the same family, I can see nature and ways to develop their development.
Studies on sensory and cognitive development of boys and girls indicate that girls are more likely to have sophisticated techniques in memory, tactile, auditory, odor and vision. After the age of 3 years, boys have a narrower gap of cognitive development as the boys have a higher possibility of having advanced visual spatial integration skills.
Although little difference is seen in cognitive development of teens boys and girls, teens boys and girls seem to have different confidence in specific cognitive abilities and skills. Compared to boys, adolescent girls tend to be confident in reading and social skills, but young boys tend to be confident in sports and mathematical skills (Eccles, Barber, Jozefowicz et al., 1999 ). Even if they have roughly the same abilities in these areas as a group (of course, there are many personal differences in these groups). It seems that consistency with stereotypes of gender rather than differences in abilities is the cause of the difference in confidence level (Eccles et al., 1999). Adults help to eliminate these myths.
Gender identity is an aspect of self-concept in development. The main difference in sex at early childhood is that boys are highly aggressive. Girls are more empathetic, sociable and tend to be less prone to problem behavior. Several perceptions differ very quickly, but others appear before or after adolescence. Children learn sex role during childhood through gender classification. Gender stereotype peaked before preschool. Four main perspectives on gender development are biology, psychoanalysis, cognition and socialization. Some evidence suggests that certain gender differences may be based on biology. In Freud's theory, children recognize parents of same sex after abandoning the desire to have another parent.
Lauren Scottberg's cognitive development theory shows "Understanding of sex is a prerequisite for sexual role development" (1966; Kohlberg & Ullian, 1974, p. 412). The theory explains that the children experienced the three stages necessary to develop the gender concept. The first stage occurs when the child is about 2 to 3 years of age, ie, gender identity or male or female emotion. The next step is the fourth and fifth stages, that is, the stability of men and women, the boys become boys, girls' understanding will always be girls. And the last step is that the children have reached 6 and 8 years old.