Cognitive Competence Case Study

Cognitive Competence is an essential components related to leadership quality. The definition of Cognitive Competence would be “...critical thinking and creative thinking as the core cognitive competence...Critical thinking refers to reasoning and making inferences, and creative thinking means stretching one 's spectacles, evaluating multiple ideas and alternatives, and generating novel and practical ideas.” (Sun & Hui, 2012) Cognitive competence is used in adaptation process to achieving equilibrium in mind.
Based on Piaget’s cognitive theory, he suggested one will go through adaptation process and this applies to all four stages of his cognitive development stage. In the adaptation process, there are 5 stages which are assimilation, equilibrium,

Therefore cognitive competence is a key factor in leadership quality. Refer back to the Piaget’s schema and adaptation process which requires to one cognitive competence to have reasoning skills in order to put the new situation is assimilation or accommodation. Referring to the definition of cognitive competence, cognitive thinking and creative thinking are both important to achieve cognitive competence. Achieving equilibrium will require the use of critical thinking to solve the disequilibrium through reasoning in the accommodation process. Creative thinking is also used in alter experiences into the schema or forms a new schema. Higher cognitive competence may shows a higher leadership quality. Ability to think critically and creatively would help one to understand the situation more quickly. If a leader is able to understand the situation and use his creative thinking to generate new ideas and give directions to the group and brings out the best of the

Before entering occupational therapy course in university, I went to hospital if my sister when we were small as my sister needs to receive therapy from the occupational therapists to improve her ability to focus in class. At the time, I was told that occupational therapists use therapy to help people to improve their ability and independently. This forms a schema in my mind about the role of occupational therapists. As I started my study in occupational therapy, I learned that therapy are designed based on client’s will as they used client based approach. This brings in new information to my schema through assimilation, “The role of occupational therapy is to help people to improve their ability and live independently but the intervention plans are based on client’s will”. Through the course, we went to hospital for clinical visit. During the clinical visit, I saw occupational therapy talking to a housewife regarding her treatment plan which she has carpal tunnel syndrome and has numbness in her forearm and hand. Occupational therapist told her that she doesn’t need to use the splint that made for her from last appointment. However, the housewife insists to continue using the splint as she claimed her hands will still have numbness after her sleep at night and she didn’t have enough strength to comprehend her self-care. The therapist told her that she is not suitable to use splint for a long time. The situation I