PSY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Curate, Midlife Crisis, Major Depressive Disorder
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Most missed question list on final, on poly learn. Happening earlier and earlier: brain development. Brain doesn"t stop developing from early to mid 20s. Cognition: formal operations, abstract reasoning, when people fist get this kind of thinking: become really idealistic, what if questions. Changes a little bit in elementary school: conventional: age 8 to 10. Rules are rules and they must be followed. Most adults stay conventional: post-conventional: follow self-chosen ethical principles. All physical and mental processes working the best it ever will. Wherever you are in your 20s is going to be where you are the rest of your life: post-formal thought. Until you have a fairly decent identity, there is not a good reason to go out and make good relationships. Need to know who you are before you know what would make you happy in a relationship. Cognitive changes should be very late stage and very small. Downward slope of risk age for major depressive disorder.
