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Cognition is a new term that describes brain patterns, brain structures, and how people think, solve problems, overcome challenges, and socialize with other humans and their environments.
It is considered a complex to advanced method of brain function and can include things like self analysis, nutrition, emotional control, brain health, and hereditary brain pathways.
Some of the sciences and professional skills that are required to do cognitive assessment include the following:
Cognitive health can include things like nutrient composition in the bloodstream because red blood cells would be carrying nutrient particles to the brain. White blood cells would also be carrying damaged cells and other harmful molecules away from the brain. Hence, circulation, diet, and nutrition are important in discussing cognitive health.
Respiratory function is also important as the brain normally requires good to excellent oxygen saturation for optimal functioning; and the electrons discharging, combining, dissipating, or going dormant would normally be neurology and examining how brain pathways interface with the spine, central nervous system, and sensory system.
Finally, thought patterns and the decisions regarding those patterns is psychology; and sociology is normally not only how a human interacts with other humans but how a human interacts with its environment and how those interactions harmonize or deteriorate relationships with other humans in a living area.
Chemistry and pharmacology are falling out of popularity in favor of diet, nutrition, circulation, and exercise. However, pharmaceutical medicines can often be used as a form of non invasive surgery and behavior modification therapy as it modifies brain pathways and the ways electrons interact within the human brain structure.
Age Groups
In normal circumstances, age groups progress with knowledge and skillset fairly consistently throughout a lifetime. This means that overall, older people have more skillsets and better brain structures. This does not mean that younger people can not have good brain health for their age, but there is often a lack of full human nutrition and access to brain exercises or its required knowledge.
Recently, food advances and their corresponding choices, computerized communications, virtualized environments, and advances in education and psychology have created disparities in what are normally well defined age groups.
This is a rare occurrence throughout human development and certain tools, techniques, and data are being used to add an equilibrium back to human development. Regardless, some interesting situations have developed such as age gap dating, switching gender roles, updated financial stability thresholds, and new education level and performance measurements.
Tools and Data
Flesch-Kincaid essentially states that a 10th grade reading level is the best reading level for most humans and Flynn Effect says that each generation of humans is smarter than the previous generation and achieves the same level of knowledge at a younger age. This is due to not having to research, experiment, hypothesize, and theorize environmental factors and its potential responses. Instead, the younger generation human can be given a list of conclusions from experiments and response reactions; some of which may have been learned over a very long period of time, nearly 80 years in some cases.
High school and college assessments have also changed recently, the focus is often skills based rather than trivia based. This means that it is possible for a middle school or even grade school students to qualify for expert status in calculus, physics, geometry, and trigonometry without having to wait for college if they can demonstrate understanding of concepts.
High School is also largely focused on personal budgeting, job search, developed nation living standards, voting, and filing government grievances. For example, not having enough money for an apartment and car even though a car is required to get to work is a grievance that can be filed with the government for remediation.
College has some additional changes, mostly reducing the need for PhD and Doctorate degrees, decreasing the cost of college and university attendance, increasing the availability of college certificates, and changing to a bachelor/masters format for those currently in progress of obtaining a professional degree.
Adulthood has also been redefined to the age of 25 to 32 for most developed nations and lifespans have increased from as young as 54 to 65 to an average of 85 to 115 with further research being done on the upper thresholds of human lifespan.
These newer areas of research in human development have presented some challenges, opportunities for growth, and have highlighted large disparities in human development throughout the world. These updates do not always correlate to a developed or under developed nation status, nor does it have a direct causation with income levels. Even in cases where increased income can help meet the newer thresholds of human development, there are other methods that achieve similar results.
Some of the areas of examination with these new guidelines include:
Consider that a human population where the upper threshold of lifespan of 54 years old has a much lower breeding age requirement than a population whose age of final rest is closer to 95. In populations where family planning begins at 25 and remains a consideration until around age 40, there are still 15 years available for dating, partner selection, pregnancy, and maternity/paternity leave during the child's infant years. With the average family being a couple with 0 to 2 kids, and planning to live until age 85 as a conservative measurement, this would leave the oldest child at around 45 years old before they no longer have parents as a support system.
Age and adulthood then becomes cognition and physical development based rather than an arbitrary number since birth. This is mostly because different population groups will achieve various levels of ability to solve problems, manage their own health, diet, nutrition needs, and ability to live independently without assistance at different points on a timeline since birth.
In merging these two sometimes contrasting viewpoints and thought philosophies in human development, a timeline since birth based on averages, medians, and means is used to set physical age groups based on time since birth and conceptual age groups based solely on cognitive development and physical measurements. The physical timeline is still important however to maintain family growth at acceptable levels throughout the entire human population.
Planning and Scheduling Child Development
Planning and Scheduling Adolescents
Early Adulthood and final stage adult development
Some of these development changes will vary from person to person and when contrasting different families; for example, an athletic couple may have their young child practicing exercises because they are overenergetic and have too fast of a metabolism without exercise. Additionally, they may find that none exercise can lead to extreme boredom and energy release through none peaceful means.
Similarly, a couple that consists of a banker and corporate business attorney may decide to teach allowance and budgeting at a younger than normal age because of the child being overly interested in spreadsheets and ledgers during bill scheduling.
Overall these stages are based on means and averages and slight adjustments can be made based on family group expression or expectations for development requirements in an area.
Modern Adulthood
Cognitive Age Groups
As a general guideline based on means and averages, the following age groups currently exist using physical timeline in measurement parameters.
These current cognitive groups were developed as a result of examining gene expression, fertility rates, and hereditary traits such as analysis and implementation of human survival infrastructure.
fertility rates for example are as follows: around 38/39 for healthy natural birth in women, 44 to 46 with fertilization treatment and doctoral observation, 48 to 52 as the oldest women with live births, no noticeable or detectable birth defects or disabilities; for men with above average health statistics, the healthiest children born to fathers past 40 had a father averaging 45 to 60 years old with a woman in her mid twenties to mid thirties. These older age parental births are not recommended without pre birth health assessment and approval, agreement and consent from a medical group or professional with professional responsibilities for the child's health.
Preadulthood has considerations with recent, but becoming outdated, information on adult preparation, a lot of it related to sexual health and sexual orientation selection which was mostly rooted in non discrimination of school students with alternate sexuality parents.
Most development guidelines for preadulthood, is to facilitate integration with adult living areas upon reaching late adolescents or early adulthood where the person can have good personal and professional development and excellent work/life balance.