PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Limbic System, Myelin, Verbal Memory
14 Dec 2016
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Developmental psychology – Psychology Lecture #8
(part 2)
Module(s) 10.3 & 10.4
From childhood to adolescence
• The et phase of that poess is adolesee
• the tasitio peiod fo hildhood to adulthood
1. What about maturation during adolescence?
Physical development
• Puberty is the time of sexual maturation (becoming physically able to reproduce)
• During puberty, increased sex hormones lead to:
• • pia ad seoda se haateistis
• • soe hages in mood and behaviour
• Height changes are an early sign of puberty
• • Beause gils egi puet sooe tha os, gils iefl oetake os i height
1. What about maturation during adolescence?
Neurological development
• The ai stops autoatiall addig e oetios • Fous o effiie eiig
• puig aa the oetios ot eig used
• oatig the ell-used connections in myelin
• Cuial tie fo effiietl/easil auiig koledge!
When does the neurological
sstes fiish atuatio? • Fotal loes ae last to eie
• The lii sste gets ied fo puet efoe the fotal loes
• Ceates a aiguous situatio
• Udestad the isk oeptuall
• But he faed ith potetial ewards they discount risk
• Deelopet of ailit to dela gatifiatio • Copletio i the id-’s
2. What is cognitive development during adolescence?
• Fous is o soial epesetatio
• e.g., thik aout the ids of othes, iludig hat do the thik of e?
• Pla ho to pusue goals (formulate intentions and an implementation plan to reach the goals)
• e.g., eduatio ad aee • Chage i pespetie
• start to appreciate how reality compares to ideals
• start to genuinely understand different life choices and their consequences
What are important changes in terms of intellectual development?
Perry’s Itellectual Deelopet “chee
• Focus on absolute answers (e.g., good vs. bad; right vs. wrong), and the experience frustration by complex relative
answers
• • Patiulal i eduatioal otets Piaget’s assiilatio
• Imitate an appreciation for complex and incomplete answers to complex problems, but not internalized
• A genuine appreciation for complex and often incomplete answers to complex problems
• Matuatio, epeiee ad eduatio lead to:
• . The ailit to appeiate that ofte ultiple ases eists to a gie pole
• . The ailit to toleate itelletual uetait ithout fustatio o a eed to fid itelletual losue
• e.g., he thee ae ol ioplete ases
• . The ailit to assess the alidit of elatie ases usig
critical thinking
• e.g., examine evidence objectively, avoid emotional reasoning, avoid oversimplification, consider alternate interpretation
• . The ailit to aept ultiple elatiisti ases, ealuated as alid, ee if soe a otadit eah othe
Building toward moral reasoning
• Adolesets thik aout eaig, ad pupose i deepe tes tha i hildhood
• E.g., justie ad faiess i teatet
Laee Kohleg’s Leels of Moal Reasoig
1. Preconventional morality
• up to age
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Document Summary
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