INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF

TODDLER

12-18 MONTHS

Discovering new ways to solve problems

“little scientists”

Repeating actions

Working toward a goal

One word sentences

18-24 MONTHS- BEGINNING OF THOUGHT Deferred imitation

Will recall an observed behavior and imitate it later

Thinking and goals Get a stool to reach an object

Thinking and hiding games

Will look for something they didn’t see hid

18-24 MONTHS - THOUGHT Thinking and shape, size, color, & texture

Thinking and object exploration

Thinking and language Associate the word with the

person or object to which it refers

Recall the word and its meaning when they hear the word or want to say it

2 or more words to form sentences

LANGUAGE

Sometimes they substitute one sound for another D for TH …. Dat instead of That

Change order of letter Perslip instead of slipper

Drop letters Seepy instead of sleepy

LANGUAGE

Parents should talk correctly, but not correct child

More parents talk , the better

Fastest vocabulary growth is at 30 months

Girls excel in verbal skills more than boys

VOCAB … TODDLER INTELLECT Encoding allows the perceived item of use or interest to be converted into a construct that can be stored within the brain and recalled later from short term or long term memory.

Empathy: the intellectual identification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another.

Storage:  refers to the retention of information, which has been achieved through the encoding process, in the brain for a prolonged period of time until it is accessed through recall. 

Retrieval: refers to recalling of events or information from the past