PSYC 2078 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Library Classification, Abstraction, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences
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Cognitive development: cognition the act of knowing or perceiving (thinking, changes during adolescence and emerging adulthood in how young people think, solve problems, and their capacities from memory and attention. Piaget"s stages: sensorimotor birth to 2 yrs learn to coordinate physical motor actions with. Symbols for symbols: can use symbols to represent other symbols, makes adolescent"s thoughts more flexible/powerful than a child"s, capacity for abstract thinking, complex thinking, and metacoginition, abstract thinking strictly a mental concept or process (ex. Love, friendship, honor: complex thinking more likely to see things in greater complexity and perceive multiple aspects of a situation or ideas, metaphor, sarcasm, satire mixes metaphor and sarcasm. Idealism project self in future: metacoginition ability to think about one"s own though processes, can learn, solve problems more efficiently. Vii: ex more likely to use mnemonics (making acronyms to remember things) Individual differences: age(s) when do we go through this, social environment, ex.
