Different Life Stages Affect their Mind and Thinking Processes

How Prior Experience and Different Stages Affect Mind and Thinking
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How Prior Experience and Different Stages Affect Mind and Thinking
Cognition involves memory and thinking processes. Humans use their mind to think when making simple or complex decisions. Based on Jean Piaget’s study, the way people think or make decisions depending on one’s life stage and prior experience. As such, learning new things is an interplay of assimilation and accommodation. For instance, humans adjust new experiences to what they already know. In other words, individuals’ prior experience and different stages affect mind and thinking processes.
Bedny et al. (2018) define adolescence as a stage of development when humans undergo profound body changes in transitioning from social relationships within a family to that of their peers (Bedny et al., 2018). In that light, some of the cognitive functions that occur during this stage include abstract thinking, social cognition, and aspects of episodic memory. Bedny et al. (2018) say that “All learning throughout the life span is associated with neural change, whether this involves modifying long-range tracts during early postnatal development or long-term potentiation of a single synapse” (Bedny et al., 2018, p. 180). At this point, researchers made it clear that what adolescents know or their life experiences significantly affect the decisions they make. The way young people think is highly influenced by what they already know. Moreover, abstract thinking links prior experience with the situation at hand when individuals are making decisions.
Kurt Fischer and Louise Silvern assert that people’s mind and their way of thinking is influenced by stages of life and individual distinctiveness. Specifically, cognitive development needs a framework that conjoins the environment and organism by building collaboration and transactional models. For example, from birth to the age of 18 years, children undergo at least eight developmental stages (Fischer & Silvern, 1985). In other words, the first stage enables them to obtain experiences that help them to navigate the upcoming stages. That is the reason why children first learn how to speak simple words before talking frequently. The two primary incompat...