ED PSYCH 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Prefrontal Cortex, Metacognition, Social Cognition
8 Feb 2017
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The prefrontal cortex is the part of the brain that is activated when engaged in complicated activities such as : planning/resisting impulses, decision-making, setting goals, metacognition. Why is adolescence marked by experience of being more emotional. Because: they experience world differently than adults. Because: lack of synchronization between emotional and rational parts of the brain. Cognition: aspects of human mind related to acquisition, modification, and manipulation of knowledge in particular contexts: knowledge, cognitive processes, metacognition. Compared to children, adolescents are more sophisticated in ability to: think about possibilities. Makes it adolescents more argumentative: think about abstract concepts, think about thinking. Can think about own behaviors and actions: think in multiple dimensions. Able to understand irony, satire, etc: see knowledge as relative. Certain factors that can change an argument in one direction into another. Cognitive developmental view: cognitive processing goes through fixed sequence of four qualitatively distinct stages. Interaction between biological change and environmental stimulation which leads to intellectual growth.
