6/28/2004
desjardins/honig COGNITION
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Beyond Piaget
•Piaget states formal operations is the final period.
•Arlin proposed a problem finding stage or post formal thought characterized by creative thought in the form of
discovered problems,
use of intuition, insight and development
of significant scientific thought.
•Schaie proposed that different experiences provide
different stages of cognition
based on problems to be solved:
–Childhood is characterized by achieving
–Early and middle adulthood characterized by a
responsible stage of managing
affairs
–Later adulthood is characterized as reintegrative,
selecting which cognitive
skills to apply to hosen tasks to achieve a sense of integrity.
•Riegel proposed a
period of dialectic operations that are conflict resolution.