01:830:333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Imaginary Audience, Personal Fable, Metacognition

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:333
• Professor: Professor Mayhew

Document Summary

Ability to comprehend higher-order abstract logic: further development of deductive and inductive reasoning, hypothetico-deductive reasoning, metacognition. Monitoring one"s own cognitive activity during thinking: increased thinking about our own thoughts, increased thinking about our own emotions, increased self-consciousness: thinking that others are thinking of us. Nothing bad can happen to them because they are special: imaginary audience. Behavior is the focus of other"s concern (cid:1: thinking in multiple dimensions (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Ability to view things from more than one aspect at a time. Understand puns, sarcasm, double-entendres: adolescent relativism. Ability to see things as relative rather than as absolute. Cognitive-developmental view: interaction between biological change and environmental stimulation leads to intellectual growth. Stage view of development: each stage is characterized by a particular type of thought. If i do this, what will happe n (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Growth of formal-operational thinking (all the changes in thinking mentioned earlier) Ability to reason logically without concrete supports.