Nada Albarbari ID 120066828 VIEWS ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT First Scenario: Mr.

Jones students are first-graders, which means they are around 5 to 6 years accordingly, these children fit in the Preoperational stage; the second in Piagets stages of development Although, children's thought processes are developing, but we still consider them to be far from 'logical thought' This Scenario involves a cognitive development dilemma Piaget believed that children in this age fail to understand reversibility, and that all logical operations are reversible. So they couldnt imagine in any way that Mr. Jones right hand is opposing their left hands. Furthermore, childrens thinking in this stage is limited by egocentricity, the inability to see things from someone elses perspective. As Piaget illustrated in his Three Mountains problem, These children tend to focus on their instantaneous concrete perceptions and find it difficult to adopt another viewpoint. Second Scenario: Ms. Lewiss students are fourth graders; hence they belong to The Concrete Operations Stage, which is Piaget's third stage of cognitive development. During this stage, the thought process becomes more rational, mature and 'adult like', Piaget described a two-stage process of moral development while Kohlberg extended Piaget's theory into six stages within three different levels of moral development. This Scenario is best analyzed by Kohlberg fourth stage of moral development (Maintaining Social Order) At this stage, children start to recognize the sanctity of rules and focus on following them, doing ones duty and respecting authority in order to maintain law and orders, that explains why Ms. Lewiss students were more concerned with outcomes ( that their classmate failed to hand her homework ) rather than intentions ( her family situation). The dilemma in this situation can be identified as moral, cognitive and social Third Scenario: Frank in this Scenario is a teenager probably 13 or 14 years old, that locates him in the Formal Operational Stage. In this stage, children can use flexible and abstract reasoning, test mental hypotheses, and consider multiple possibilities for the solution to a problem. I would say this is a behavioural dilemma. Frank recognized the class attitude while Ms. Quintera was introducing his work, he came up with a general theory of all possible factors that might affect the outcome and assume hypotheses for what may take place in real world (the class reaction to the second poem). He then decided to solve his problem with respect to the systematic treatment to his hypothesis. (Avoid the embarrassment and not to write another poem)