Question

Schaie's Cognitive Development Theory- Jean Piaget

Answer 1

Piaget states that cognitive development as a process which develop by biological maturation and interaction with the environment.

Piaget's stages of cognitive development

Stages and age	characteristics
Sensory Birth to 2 years	Gains knowledge through looking, touching, holding and manipulating objects Can distinguish between self and environment
Pre operations 2-7 years	Learning through action Able to remember and anticipated Internalize the concrete world through language and visual image.
Concrete operations 7- 11 years	Achieve insight into view of others Handle problem logically eg: arithmetic equations
Formal operations From 11 years onwards	Make use abstract thought Use logical thinking and use diverse and systematic approach to problem solving.

Cognitive development - Schaie's theory

It's state that cognitive development take place in middle adulthood.

1. Acquisition stage : (childhood and adolescence) Person acquired more complex way of thinking.

2. Achieving stage (young adulthood )

It involved problem solving and decision making and individual choose appropriate career based on their intellectual competencies.

3. Responsibility stage (adulthood )

Individual needs to be an independent thinker

4. Executive stage (middle adulthood )

Enable to handle responsible position through increase knowledge.

5. Reintegrative stage(late adulthood )

Individual must use accumulated repertoire of intellectual skills to assess life and give meaning to what is the past.

6. Reorganizational stage : people entered retirement life they reorganized their life.

7. Legacy stage Near the end of life older people create instruction for the disposition of prized possession, make funeral arrangement.