Adolescence

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later. Many people can confuse the pubescent stage to be the centre of an adolescents development. But as it is seen through Piaget's work with children, adolescents and the developmental stages they encounter, there is a great deal more to than mere physical changes a growing person go through. The Cognitive Development is of equal importance, and could be considered to play a superior part in terms of overall continued development of a person throughout the lifespan.
Piaget theorised four important stages of Cognitive Development: the Sensorimotor stage, the Pre-Operational stage, the stage of Concrete Operations and finally the Formal Operations stage. Throughout these four stages, specific critical cognitive abilities are achieved, for the child to develop into the world and understand everything that goes with it. It is during Piaget's final stage of development, Formal-Operations, covering , that children are able to think differently and hypothesise abstract problems. ...

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Abstract Thinking
Similarly to reasoning, children attain widening abilities to think intuitively, abstractly and hypothetically. Some of the characteristics of this are: The ability to delve into probabilities and improbabilities and imagining other worlds. This is where a great deal of achievement and creativity can come from, which expands the cognitive boundaries and limitations of developing children. (Jaffe, 1998, p125)

There are many criticisms of Piagetian theory and much evidence to contradict Piagetian accounts of what children can and cannot do at different ages. (Gold, 1987, p147)Even though Piaget's work has an influence on a lot of developmental Psychology, ...

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