Cognitive Development and Scenarios: Psychology Assignment

This psychology assignment explores cognitive development through three different scenarios. The first scenario focuses on a 5-year-old child in the preoperational stage, where the student analyzes how to address the child's behavior of taking a toy from another child, emphasizing communication and understanding. The second scenario involves a child in the formal operational stage, prompting a discussion on how to handle a situation where the child takes money without permission, and the importance of open communication and addressing the dangers of vaping and smoking. The final scenario examines an adolescent's decision to quit studies and career for a partner, highlighting the need to guide the adolescent towards making informed decisions about their future and the importance of independence, avoiding punishment and instead fostering a supportive, communicative approach based on psychological principles and theories of child development, including Piaget's stages of cognitive development.

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Scenario 1:
In the first scenario the child is of 5 years old. The stage of cognitive development in the
stage is the preoperational stage. At this stage of the cognitive development, they begins to think
characteristically. The child at this stage are egocentric and think in a very concrete manner.
Such children do not want to see things from the other’s perspective (Boyd and Bee, 2015).
Child at this stage are more egocentric and hence if I will punish my daughter, it might
have negative impact on her brain. Hence, in such condition, I will communicate with her and
will try to make her understand that taking away other child’s toy is wrong and she should not do
that. I will tell her that if she wants to play with that toy she could have been asked the other
children but taking someone’s thing without their permission is bad.
Scenario 2:
According to Piaget theory of the cognitive development, the stage of cognitive
development for the children is the formal operational stage (Blake, 2015). At this stage of the
cognitive development, the child begins to think conceptually. Different types of the abstract
thought emerges at this stage. They started using deductive logic. It is one of the most complex
stage of the cognitive development (Siegler, 2016).
Punishing the children of this stage lead to more negative result. Hence, in order to avoid
such negative impact, effective communication can be used. I will talk to them as a friend and
will make them understand that it is extremely bad to take money from someone without their
permission and if they need something they can ask me without acknowledging them that I know
about the money. Along with that, I will also talk about the harmful effect of vapes and
cigarettes.

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Scenario 3:
At this stage the cognitive properties of the children have developed fully but still they
cannot use that properly. The child at this stage think in a different manner and gives more
priority to their partners and friends and not family. Their decision making ability is not fully
developed (Varela, Thompson and Rosch, 2017).
In the case study it is observed that the girl wants to quit her study as well as her career
for her partner. In this case, I will not punish her as it will lead to more negative effect. I will
make her understand that it is extremely important to complete her studies and career in order to
become dependent. She should first focus on her studies and career and then about her wedding.
It is good that she has found her partner but this is not the age of getting marrying. I will talk to
her as a friend and will try to make her understand about the importance of being dependent.

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Reference:
Blake, B., 2015. Developmental psychology: Incorporating Piaget’s and Vygotsky’s theories in
classrooms.
Boyd, D. and Bee, H., 2015. Lifespan development. Pearson Education Limited.
Siegler, R., 2016. Cognitive development in childhood.
Varela, F.J., Thompson, E. and Rosch, E., 2017. The embodied mind: Cognitive science and
human experience. MIT press.