Adult cognitive development
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Identify, compare and contrast two approaches to understanding adult
cognitive development.
There are two approaches:
Piaget’s view and Postformal thought.
The approach explains that both the adult and the adolescent tend to think in the same way quantitatively.
There is a progressive in the development of thinking that comes with age. This is formal operational thinking. In comparison, postformal is reflective, contextual, and practical. Postformal thought is controlled by emotion. It’s so easy to present the reality of development and life in general. It’s determined by prevailing environmental conditions.
Both approaches tend to explain the development of reasoning in both adult and adolescents. They are both characterized by formal operation that leads to logical reasoning thinking (Scott-Janda, 2016).
Define and discuss the differences between romantic love, affectionate love, and friendship. Use proper in-text citations to support your responses.
Romantic love; this is an intense emotional feeling that is characterized by attraction towards other people, the person can be of same gender or the opposite gender. In most cases, this type of love is accompanied by sexual acts and other forms of intimacy.
Emotions and the feelings are driving romantic love; therefore there are three major components that differentiate romantic love from other types of live i.e; the attachment, caring (“caregiving”) and sex (Trask, et al 2020). When combined together, the growth that is experienced with this love is higher than other forms of love. Romantic love tends to be more jealous in the sense that. In most cases, romantic love goes beyond culture, and it involves hormonal transfer that consequently and result greater bond.
Affectionate love; this is a type of love where one person feels a great desire to always have another person closer to them so as to express some affection. This type of love is accompanied by a deep sagacity of concern and affections.
Affectionate love is an all-rounded type of love that usually exists due to some long-term connection. For example a mother is affectionate towards her children, and children feel the same towards their mother. Affectionate love has a greater connection with romantic love and friendship love in equal measure. It is accompanied by the expression and practicality of mattes of respect behavior.
Friendship; is a relationship that involves different people that is accompanied by mutual contributions. The bond that binds such people together is stronger and tends to be committed to one another.
In most cases, friendship is a very open form of relationship that cuts across different genders and ages (Trask, et al 2020). It takes time to grow depending on nature and the environmental conditions. People of the same age groups tend to bond together; this can be schoolmates, classmates and teammates. As compared to other forms of love, friendship does not involve intimacy. However, friendship can act as the starting point for all these forms of love, i.e romantic love and affectionate love. However, these different types of love are greatly connected; without this intense connection, growth and strength of love can sometimes be rendered null.
Reference
Scott-Janda, E., & Karakok, G. (2016). REVISITING PIAGET: COULD POSTFORMAL THINKING BE THE NEXT STEP?. Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal, 30, 1-11
Trask, S. L., Horstman, H. K., & Hesse, C. (2020). Deceptive affection across relational contexts: A group comparison of romantic relationships, cross-sex friendships, and friends with benefits relationships. Communication Research, 47(4), 623-643.