... anything harmful). This is the ultimate level of growth, according to the constructivist theory. Piaget believed this stage continues into adulthood with new experiences, interaction with others and reading. In early adulthood, memory and thinking abilities are at the highest. In middle adulthood, shows an average memory loss and a reduced ability to perform tasks requiring speed. Cognitively, during late ... adulthood verbal skills such as vocabulary and broad-spectrum knowledge are retained, but memory and mobility tends to decrease. From this point ... personality change. It encomp...

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... become abstract complex thinkers. Three important principles that came out of Piaget's work were organization, adaptation, and equilibration. Organization was the way a child organized their thoughts and experiences. Children formed schemas or theories about how the physical and social world around them operated. Younger children have simpler schemas while older children have more complex schemas due to more ... -motor level" (Pulaski, 1980, pg. 216). They are still not capable of thinking logically about abstract proportions. Formal Operations begins at the age of eleven and continues th...

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... to cope with cognitive dissonance. Both processes occur together to organise input from new events. "Accommodation" describes current schemata being altered to fit new information. "Assimilation" happens when new experiences are integrated into existing schemata. An example of these working together is when a child using the schema "cat" applies it to all four-footed animals. This schema is altered by ... the present stage is required. Events that require adaptation must be present before change can occur. He considered that there is a genetically determined limit on an individual's capa...

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