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Chapter 8 "INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT" The Chapter at a Glance Intellectual growth during infancy. Intellectual development during childhood. Intellectual development during adolescence. Educational implications. Attention to the whole child needed. Intellect refers to mind in its cognitive aspect, particularly to the higher thought processes. These higher thought processes are conception, comparison, abstraction, generalization, reasoning, etc. A study of the intellectual development, therefore, includes an account of the growth of these and other allied mental functions at various levels of life. This study is now rapidly becoming a subject matter of great interest with modern educationists and child psychologists. Not Confined to Scholastic Achievement     Children’s intellectual development is usually confused with scholastic achievement. Thus it has become common to talk of children’s intellectual achievements in term of such scholastic