PSY 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Metacognition, Knowledge Base, Knowledge Acquisition
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6 conceptual skills emerge during the stage of formal operations: 1. Adolescents are able to manipulate mentally more than 2 categories of variables at the same time: 2. They are able to think about changes that come with time: 3. They are able to hypothesise about a logical sequence of possible events: 4. They are able to anticipate the consequences of their actions: 5. They are able to detect the logical consistency or inconsistency in a set of statements: 6. Adolescents can think in relativistic ways about themselves, other individuals and their world. This means that they can increasingly accept others" viewpoints and values. The componential approach refers to the breaking down of the thinking process into various components. An example of a componential approach is the information-processing approach. Theorists break down information-processing into separate parts, such as capacities for attention, processing, storing and retrieving information. Adolescents" attentional abilities are better adapted to the changing demands of a task.
