4 Benefits of Humor for Children's Cognitive Development
If you read the following article, it seems that you and your partner will think of giving your little one more access to watching comedy movies, cartoons, or comics. Because, besides making them laugh, it turns out that humor has good benefits for children’s development. What are some of them?
1. Capturing Mismatches
Dr. Paige Davis, Ph.D., professor of psychology at York St. John University, UK, explained that basically humor is a mismatch between a concept and a situation. Well, it takes cognitive abilities to catch these mismatches.
By becoming increasingly involved with humor, Davis believes that children’s cognitive development will flourish. More and more, he will learn to place concepts and schemes in his life experiences with what he deems inappropriate so that it becomes funny.
2. Strengthens Imagination
“Imagination plays a big role in finding incompatibilities,” Davis said. Children will begin to learn to make humor by imitating jokes they have known from adults. At that time they developed their imagination by improvising the humor and producing their own jokes.
3. Developing Language Skills
When creating humor, children learn new vocabulary that can make people laugh. Not only that, they will also start learning slapstick or even irony and satire. They learn figure of speech or figurative there. They could have said, “If you played mud here first, Mama you would be very happy when you came home.” They laughed at these words. They know that her mother may not be happy, but will be angry with the behavior.
4. Maximizing Learning in Classroom
Mary Kay Morrisonis a professional lecturer at the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor Illinois, USA, and author Using Humor to Maximize Learning: The Links Between Positive Emotions and Education, said that humor can maximize learning and strengthen memory. In his research, he observed that brain scans showed higher levels of activity in some brains when humor was used in speech and classroom instruction by teachers.
Also read:
Child Cognitive Development Stage
This is the Strength of a Humorous Child
Stimulates the child’s humor [Part 1]
Stimulates the child’s humor [Part 2]
Stages of Children to Have a Sense of Humor
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