HD 1004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Executive Functions, Personal Fable, Corpus Callosum
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Corpus callosum thicken and improves ability to process information. Prefrontal cortex finishes maturing between ages 18-25, involved in reasoning, decision making and self-control. Amygdala matures before the prefrontal cortex does (strong emotions such as anger) Thought is more abstract; greater verbal problem solving ability, can think about through (metacognition), idealism and possibilities, hypothetical deductive reasoning. Only 1/3 of adolescents use formal operation in thinking: many adults do not; some children can be trained to think in more complex ways than the stages piaget assigned them to. Imaginary audience: center of everyone"s attention, main character vs. audience. Personal fable: no one understands, danger invulnerability, psychological invulnerability. Ability to monitor and manage cognitive resources increases. More able to control attention and reduce interfering thoughts. Increase in working memory (manipulate and assemble information to help make decision, solve problems, and comprehend language) Decision making; effected by emotional intensity and social context.
