HDFS 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Jean Piaget, Sarcasm, Deductive Reasoning
9 Sep 2016
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Cognitive development involves learning how to coordinate activities of the senses with motor activities: preoperational. Capable of representing the world symbolically (language: concrete operations. Become more adept at using mental operations. Allow adolescents to reason about more complex task and problem involving multiple variables. Involves the ability to think scientifically and apply concepts. Involves the development of the ability to think scientifically and apply the rigor of the scientific method to cognitive tasks. Hypothetical- deductive reasoning is the ability to arrive and defend an answer. Abstract thinking, complex thinking: allows us to think ahead, formulate hypotheses and test them etc. Complex thinking: thinking that takes into account multiple connections and interpretations. Adolescents become capable of understanding metaphors at 8-10. Metacognition: adolescents are aware of their thinking processes, the capacity for thinking about thinking enables adolescents to learn and solve problems more efficiently. Piagets research has inspired theories of cognitive development beyond formal operations known as: post-formal thinking.
