... physical decline, loss of capacity, and death. Each of these physical changes has important implications for the religious life of the individual. Our cognitive development is effected by these physical changes. Children lack the cognitive capability to ask questions about life and death. At a basic level, cognitive development involves a change in how the person knows, thinks, and believes. Changes in cognitive structure allow new assumptions about the nature of reality and ways of interpreting experiences. Jean Piaget identified that the consequences of these structural changes can be dramatic. Piaget (1926, 1953) used the observation of his children as they were growing up, for his research. He asked certain questions to his children at different ages about their experience of the world and he compared their responses. He also used logical problems for his children to solve in his research and recorded both their answers to the problems and ...

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