BIOL1900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Deductive Reasoning, Lightdark, Inductive Reasoning
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Highs and lows: best/worst of times, wisdom/foolishness, spring/winter. What are adolescents like: no set age for adolescence, emerging adults. What is adolescence: child/adult, transition from being a child to an adult, psychological and social aspects of transitioning, puberty is a biological phenomenon. Early maturers: boys, more popular and a more positive self-image, report more frequent feelings of positive affect, attention, strength and being in love, girls, more likely to get involved in antisocial or deviant activities. Late maturers: boys, more childish, strong feelings of inadequacy, girls, higher ratings on measures of intellectual curiosity, cope better. Childhood-adulthood: physical development, appearance: abilities, strength, sexual, emotional, lability, passion, self-perception, heightened awareness of difference, sensitivity, comparison, aspirations or lack thereof, cognitive, formal operational thinking, thinking hypothetically, not universal (acquired by <50%) Concrete operational thought: allows logical operations with concrete objects and events only two dimensions of a problem considered. Formal operations period - piaget: characteristics, abstract objects and events, formal operations, deductive reasoning.
