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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.
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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.