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Intellectual Development During Infancy

The intellectual life of an infant turns to recognizing and remembering certain objects and persons and also follows a person. From, birth to twelfth month ,shows signs of  progress  in visual form .At  two or three years, they  are able to identity difference  in position. After, particular stage of development ,infants develop ability to discriminate colour, sound, weight, time and space etc. The infants also develop their likes and dislikes ,interest and preferences. Infants are able to recognize and distinguish between a familiar and a strange objects by  the age. The early creative work is the source of intellectual growth of the child .They have their own power of reasoning and  judgement.

F.D.Brooks states many interesting cases of reasoning among the infants. In the intellectual process language also plays a vital role. It involves all types of mental ability like experiencing ,perceiving, reproducing, memorizing, association etc. The intellectual development during infancy is based on approximate guess work. But, when the child becomes old, he makes varied use of language. He uses words to name people, action and things and also ask the questions for them.

Thus, the infants achievement in language is the most amazing .The same helpless child, who faces a lot of difficulties to utter a single word, uses several words in the later stage of his development. his

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Biranchi Narayan Dash & Smt. Kunjalatha Dash. (2003). Essential of educational psychology. India