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LASA 1: Theories of Development and Application
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Apply the theories of development to your personal life experience by answering EACH of the following questions. Please write enough detail to thoroughly illustrate the concepts. Use the recommended word requirement.

1. “Jean Piaget’s Stage Theory of Cognitive Development: At what age do you feel you entered the stage of Formal Operational Thought? Explain the stage briefly and then focus on providing examples of ways your thinking has shifted to indicate you have developed into this stage of reasoning.” (For instance, provide an example of how your views of justice or morality have shifted as you’ve matured.) (Approximately 250 Words) (Argosy, 2014)
What Jean Piaget describes as formal thought is where a person can see other perspectives and reason how different choices can change the final outcome. (Gerrig, 2012)
I feel that I entered this stage when I was 12, an opossum got into our house. I remember being scared and upset that my father killed the opossum, but had the understanding and reasoning that the animal was dangerous and she was hissing and trying to bite everyone. Then on the other hand it was an animal and deserved to live. When we found her babies the next morning my dad killed them too, I was mortified and so angry. I again knew they would die if they had no mom to take care of them. With this situation I tried to see both the animal’s side of looking for a warm place for her babies and how it was unsafe to allow the animal into the house. My thoughts where that she was an animal. We lived in the woods and did not belong taking over her natural home. So killing her for doing what she would have naturally was wrong. I battled with this for weeks to reason out that my father had to protect us for the same reason the opossum had to protect her family. Most of all that sometimes

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