PSYC 3509 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: David Elkind, Personal Fable, Imaginary Audience

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3509
• Professor: Anne Bowker

Document Summary

Cognitive foundations (chapter 3) psyc 3509 lecture 6. Piaget: development is discontinuous, stage like, qualitative differences. Information processing: development is continuous, quantitative changes. Computer analogies: sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory, attention, memory, processing speed. Selective attention: ability to focus on relevant information and ignore irrelevant information. Memory short term input/storage improves up to age 16. Working memory: mental workbench; analyze and reason, correlated with intelligence improves with age long term increases during adolescence improved memory strategies increased experience. Processing speed increases during adolescence increases in automaticity role of experience, expertise. Practical cognitions: development of critical thinking skills, competent decision making. Behaviour decision making theory identify range of possible choices identify consequences of each: evaluate desirability of consequence likelihood of each consequence integrating these processes, making a decision. Social cognition the way we think about other people, relationships and social institutions. Ability to understand the thoughts and feelings of others increases with age.