Unit 9 Pages 336-341

UNIT 9 PAGES 336-341

By: Nic, Evan, and Austin

SECTIONS:

Late Adulthood – Define

Ageism, explain why we age

and die.

Cognitive Development –

Describe Piaget’s Theory

Preoperational Stage

AGING

Physical changes happen after middle age to the heart, arteries, and sensory

receptors.

Heart changes by pumping out less blood and arteries stiffen creating high blood

pressure.

Sensory receptors gradually get worse. Hearing, eyesight, smell and taste all get

worse.

Forgetfulness is not a part of natural aging, usually apart of a degenerative

disorder.

However processing speed is slowed down. Like a filing cabinet, the more

cabinets, the longer it takes

Older people excel in college classes due to previous knowledge.

AGEISM: WHAT IS IT?

Discrimination towards someone because of their age.

Older people are portrayed negatively because of previously

listed physical changes.

Some negative portrayals of older people include:

- Balding

- Wrinkly Skin

- Saggy Skin

- No Mobility

PIAGET’S THEORY: CHILDREN ARE NOT MINIATURE ADULTS

Piaget demonstrated that a child’s

intellectual growth happens in stages, starting

at a very primitive level and improving

intellectually.

Early psychologists focused very little on

developmental psychology.

SCHEMAS, ASSIMILATION AND ACCOMMODATION

Schemas are the simplest ideas our brains process, they

are just basic patterns in our environment that we pick up.

Things like crawling, parents, and toys are all schemas.

Assimilation is the use of schemas in new situations, like

using the crawling schema to crawl up a stairway.

Accommodation occurs when an existing idea is changed

to fit new facts.

THE PREOPERATIONAL STAGE

Preoperational thinking is the time when a child

lacks operations, reversible, mental processes.

Egocentrism is when a child has limited abilities in

distinguishing between his or her own perspective

and someone else’s.

Animistic thinking is where someone thinks objects

have feelings, motives, and intentions.

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