... , her son is in the concrete stage of cognitive development, as proposed by Piaget. During this stage, accommodation increases. The child develops an ability to think abstractly and to make rational judgments about concrete or observable phenomena, which in the past he needed to manipulate physically to understand. In teaching this child, giving him the opportunity to ask questions and to ... the social aspects that were revealed, I learned many of the cognitive results of adoption. I feel I better understand a friend who is an adopted child in a more objective sense rather than just exp...

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