Cognitive development

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You're with Doug and Natalie Nicholls, who is from Plex Learning, and she is an education and neuroscience and cognitive development specialist.

But the choices we make during early adulthood can and will influence our health later in life.

So now let's talk about cognitive development because this is where things get very interesting.

I don't know if you remember Piaget's theory of cognitive development.

We learned that during adolescence, people become increasingly capable of formal operational thinking.

In other words, we become better at thinking abstractly and considering possibilities and reasoning about hypothetical situations.

What is developing? Jean Piaget creates...

Jean Piaget equals cognitive development.

So Piaget wanted to explain how children think and reason.

Remember, he had four major stages.

And then older adults encounter integrity versus despair.

So 16-year-olds questioning career goals, values, and beliefs, who they want to become.

That's Erickson, identity versus role confusion and the formal operation, if you're looking at the cognitive development by Piaget.

How about we ask Lawrence Kohlberg territory? Well, the question there is how is this person deciding what is morally right? Kohlberg decided three major levels of moral reasoning.