PSYC 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Deductive Reasoning, Cadence Skill, Working Memory
12 Dec 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Adolescents are on the threshold of young adulthood, and this is particularly evident in their cognitive skill. In jean piaget"s theory, adolescence marks the beginning of the fourth and final stage of intellectual development. In information processing, the transition to mature thinking occurs gradually throughout early and middle adolescence. Piaget"s formal operational stage extends from roughly age. 11 into adulthood, children and adolescents apply mental operations to abstract entities, which allows children to think hypothetically and reason deductively. Freed from the concrete and the real, adolescents explore the possible what might be and what could be: unlike time-and space-oriented concrete operational thinkers, formal operational thinkers understand that concrete reality is not the only possibility for thought. They can envision alternative or abstract realities and examine their consequences: reality is the foundation of concrete operational thinking. In contrast, formal operational adolescents use hypothetical reasoning to probe the implications of fundamental change in physical or biological laws.
