Berger, K. S. (2011). The First Two Years: Cognitive Development. The developing person through the life span(8th ed., p. 157). New York: Worth Publishers.
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Week 3 Post 1
While reading this chapter I was really intrigued to read that by the 2nd year of a child's life they start experiencing thought and deed . This happens in the sixth stage of sensorimotor intelligence, there is where children start to anticipate and solve problems (Berger, 2011, p. 157) Basically children start thinking first, and then acting after. I think this is so interesting because we hear all the time, especially as teenagers or young adults, to think first and act later, but why as babies are we able to do this when it's so difficult for us as adults to think of the consequences before we act. So some questions come to my mind. Do we become underdeveloped in this type of thinking and problem solving before we make an action, good or bad, as we age? Or is it unnatural for humans to think first and then act. How do we become able to get into the mindset of thinking first and acting second? Is it something we never loose we just forget? Or is it something we have to relearn and continuously practice as years go on?
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For your first question I think that as we age we see our parents act before they think and this makes children believe that this is the normative thing to do. So a lot of the reasoning that small children think first and then act is because it is what they are telling themselves to do. Then as I said when we age we change do to what we see our elders doing. Then in response to your next question, I think that it is something that has to be continuously practiced as we age. When we get put into stressful situations most people just react really quick before thinking. But the ones who think first and act second are usually the ones that have practiced this over and over again or were raised to do this on a regular basis. I do not think that without practicing this think first act second routine that we will ever do it just naturally. As many other things in life, practice is what makes us successful.
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