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Aging and Ageism: Understanding Late Adulthood Changes and Piaget’s Theory

Explore the physical changes in late adulthood related to the heart, arteries, and senses. Learn about ageism and Piaget's Preoperational Stage, highlighting cognitive development theories. Discover how aging impacts cognitive abilities and societal perceptions with examples.

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Aging and Ageism: Understanding Late Adulthood Changes and Piaget’s Theory

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  1. Unit 9 Pages 336-341 By: Nic, Evan, and Austin

  2. Sections: Late Adulthood – Define Ageism, explain why we age and die. Cognitive Development – Describe Piaget’s Theory Preoperational Stage

  3. 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.

  4. 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

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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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