PS276 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex, Diffusion Mri
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Adolescents are better able than children to think about what is possible. Adolescents are better able than children to think about abstract things. Adolescents think more often about the process of thinking itself. Adolescents thinking is more often multidimensional rather than limited to a single issue. Adolescents are more likely than children to see things as relative, rather than as absolute. For the child, what is possible is what is real; for adolescents, what is real is a subset of what is possible. As a young child you are simply who you are, as an adolescent who you are is just one possibility of who you could be. Many parents believe their children become more argumentative during adolescence; though what probably happens is their children become better arguers. An adolescent does not accept other people"s points of view unquestioningly, but instead evaluates them against other theoretically possible beliefs.
