EDUC 2109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Abstraction, Personal Fable, Deductive Reasoning
6 Feb 2018
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Multiple dimensional thinking: ability to view things from more than one aspect at a time, more sophisticated understanding of probability, understand sarcasm, puns, proverbs, metaphors, irony, double-entendres, better understanding of social situations increases throughout adolescence. Adolescent relativism: ability to see things as relative rather than absolute. Piaget"s tages of cog(cid:374)iti(cid:448)e de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t: sensorimotor (birth-2) sense and movements to explore the world, preoperational (2-7) symbolic, sometimes illogical thinking, concrete operational (7-11) more organized reasoning formal operational (11-on) abstract, systematic reasoning. Information processing: central executive-> sensory register -> sensory register. > long term memory -> response generator: five areas of improvement, selective attention and concertation, working memory and long-term memory, processing speed, organization, metacognition, can monitor their own learning process. How our brain works: nucleus, cell body, dendrites, axon, myelin sheath, the synaptic cleft: how neurons communicate. Increased white matter reflects increased myelination and improved connectivity within and across brain regions. What changes in the brain: both structural and functional changes.
