ED PSYCH 321 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Diffusion Mri, Reminiscence Bump
30 Jan 2017
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Adolescents take a pause before responding to questions: hypothetical thinking. Need to see beyond what is observable and apply logical reasoning to anticipate what might be possible. Helps in formulating and arguing a viewpoint. Permits one to plan ahead and foresee consequences. Thinking about abstract concepts: ability to think in more advanced ways about interpersonal relationships, politics, philosophy, religion, and mortality. Thinking about thinking: metacognition: involves monitoring own cognitive activity during thinking process, adolescent egocentrism. Imaginary audience: heightened sense of self-consciousness that you imagine that behavior is focus of everyone else"s attention. Personal fable: belief that experiences are unique. Thinking in multiple dimensions: able to see things through more complicated lens, able to give more complicated answers, more sophisticated understanding of probability, sarcasm and south park. Understanding that communication is combination of what is said, how it is said, and context in which it was said. Able to appreciate satire, metaphor, and ways in which language can convey multiple meanings.
