Brain Development Essay

How does brain development change as someone ages?
During this corse I lean multiple ways that the brain changes mentally as a person ages, such as cognitive development. There are many theories about how cognitive development occurs in children. Jean Piaget had a theory of cognitive development that included 3 different stages, the sensorimotor stage, the preoperational stage, and the concrete operational stage. The stages begin with learning though senses and actions, to have magical and egotistic thinking, to being able to think logically but not abstractly. Piaget also believed that people’s brains create schemas, almost like folders for the ideas of the brain, in order to organized they can understand them. When someone takes in new information,

I also strongly believe that different combinations are used for different people because every person is unique in their ways of learning. For me, I feel that if I and given some guidance to help me begin, then I am able to figure out the rest on my own. For example, learning math in some cases, if I was given a lesson by a teacher in one of my math courses, but I did not fully understand the topic, I would be able to sit down with the guidance I have already been given, and figure out how to do the rest on my own. I do not believe that development can be solely based on one theory or the other; the mind is too complex to be explained that easily or to be narrowed down to a single reasoning of how it

Genes are complex by themselves, so their association to an attire brain’s development is not enough to be the only reason, but an environment cannot affect any different individual’s genes in the same way. I agree that the environment can affect an individual’s genes, but these genes also react in their own way. Personally, I believe that I was born with a certain way thinking, and the thinking has been adjusted in its own way based on my environment and experiences. For instance, as a child I always had a passion for working with babies and young children, at 8 years old I was blessed with a little sister, my experiences with her encouraged my natural passion and now I’m going to college to either be an early elementary school teacher, or a child psycologist. I feel like I genetically had this passion, and my experiences took it into the direction I’m heading now. If I had not originally had that passion, the experiences with my little sister probably would have not lead me to want to be a teacher, but also, if I did not have those experiences and I had the passion, I may have decided on another career path with that passion. Overall, I am extremely fascinated by how complex and amazing our brains are. Although I do not feel that we do now, or will ever, fully understand how the brain functions, I believe these theories are a great