PSYCH 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Weighing Scale, Metacognition, Psych
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Thinking is abstract & no longer tied to concrete or personal experiences. Adolescents can now engage in hypothetical thought reasoning about if-then propositions that do not reflect reality. Inductive (or bottom-up) reasoning dominates the middle childhood years. By age 14, adolescents are capable of deductive (or top-down) reasoning. Dual-process model refers to the notion that there are two pathways in the brain. Quick & powerful, but may be illogical! In a series of studies, klaczynski (2001, 2011) presented 19 logic problems to 9-, 12-, & Most adolescents (73%) made at least one analytic error! They intuitively jumped to a wrong conclusion rather than use logic. Logical thinking improved with age & education (but not iq). *****as we age, our thinking moves from intuitive processing to more analytical processing. Overall, adolescents tend to favor intuitive and analytic thinking. Adolescent egocentrism a characteristic of adolescent thinking that leads young people to focus on themselves to the exclusion of others.
