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According to the Textbook, During Late Adulthood, the Brain Processes

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According to the textbook, during late adulthood, the brain processes information more slowly and brain regions responsible for memory deteriorate. Based on this information, and on your knowledge of the brain, you infer that the ____ deteriorates in old age.


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Concrete-Operational Stage

A phase in cognitive development, identified by Jean Piaget, where children begin to understand concrete, logical operations and can solve problems with physical objects.

Piagetian Stage

Stages of cognitive development proposed by Jean Piaget that describe how children's ability to think and reason evolves as they grow older.

Conservation

In cognitive psychology, Piaget's principle that children learn that quantity does not change with physical rearrangement or appearance of objects.

Classification

The systematic arrangement of entities in a structured form, usually based on common characteristics or attributes.

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