| Conceptual
Development |
An
important aspect of child psychology is how children’s
understanding of the world develops. For example, children
develop a conception of themselves as individuals, of other
people as members of their family or people outside their
family, of physical laws (if you drop a glass, it breaks), and
so on.
One of the key stages of conceptual development is
developing the idea of object permanence. Very young babies do
not attempt to look for an attractive object which is hidden.
As they grow older, they understand that the object still
exists and they look for it.
Other key ideas in conceptual development are pattern
recognition (learning to recognize and eventually to predict
patterns) and abstract operations (learning to think in
abstract terms, using abstract language)
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