Jean Piagett created the Piaget’s Development Theory. This theory was created in order to try and explain how biology and experience sculpt cognitive development. He decided to divide the theory into four different stages. In chronological order the stages are sensorimotor stage, preoperational stage, concreate operational stage, and formal operational stage. During each stage the child is able to master some type of task. The first stage in this theory is the sensorimotor stage. This lasts from birth to approximately two years old. The child uses different types of sensory experiences to better learn how to understand the world it lives in. One of the task that the child must master is taking an action that seems like a reflex and doing it
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They weren’t really concerned with emerging and early adulthood. Piaget felt like adults use the same type of reasoning as adolescents, so there really didn’t need to be another stage. I feel like there should be more theories involving adulthood, as adults continue to change and evolve. K. Warner Schaie proposed that adults progress exceeds those who are adolescents in their use of intellect. As people reach adulthood they start entering careers where they go from acquiring knowledge to applying knowledge. Adults also don’t think of the world in terms of polarities like adolescents do. They become more aware of the diverse opinions and multiple personalities of others. This causes them to have more reflective and relativistic thinking. Adult’s emotions are also changing during this time and might affect cognitive development. Emotional mature adults who are independent are more likely to engage in complex, integrated cognitive-emotional thinking. All of these changes could still could affect cognitive development. Developmental theorists such as Jean Piaget have helped pave the way for the understanding of how biology and experience help sculpt cognitive development. Although they have added a lot of knowledge, I feel like there is still more knowledge to be learned. I feel like more research needs to be done and more theories need to be created especially for the adult age
They weren’t really concerned with emerging and early adulthood. Piaget felt like adults use the same type of reasoning as adolescents, so there really didn’t need to be another stage. I feel like there should be more theories involving adulthood, as adults continue to change and evolve. K. Warner Schaie proposed that adults progress exceeds those who are adolescents in their use of intellect. As people reach adulthood they start entering careers where they go from acquiring knowledge to applying knowledge. Adults also don’t think of the world in terms of polarities like adolescents do. They become more aware of the diverse opinions and multiple personalities of others. This causes them to have more reflective and relativistic thinking. Adult’s emotions are also changing during this time and might affect cognitive development. Emotional mature adults who are independent are more likely to engage in complex, integrated cognitive-emotional thinking. All of these changes could still could affect cognitive development. Developmental theorists such as Jean Piaget have helped pave the way for the understanding of how biology and experience help sculpt cognitive development. Although they have added a lot of knowledge, I feel like there is still more knowledge to be learned. I feel like more research needs to be done and more theories need to be created especially for the adult age