FRHD 2280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sarcasm, Abstraction, Egocentrism
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Which of the follow abilities does not develop during the formal operations stage: hypothetico-deductive reasoning, sarcasm, abstract thinking, conversation. Analyzing information: judging meaning, creating connections, exploring validity. Identifying the consequences that would result from each choice: evaluating the desirability of each consequence, assessing the likelihood of each consequence. Adolescent decision making if we know late adolescents are good at decision making, why do they make bad decisions/take risks. Dual processing thinking teenage brain social cognition. How we think about other people, social relationships, and social institutions. 2 aspects: perspective taking, adolescent egocentrism perspective taking. Early adolescence: mutual perspective taking late adolescence: social and conventional perspective taking. Ability to attri(cid:271)ute (cid:373)e(cid:374)tal states to o(cid:374)e"s self a(cid:374)d others: beliefs, thoughts feelings adolescent egocentrism imaginary audience. Bear in mind: these diminish with age but never disappear entirely. Alfred binet: first intelligence test: stanford-binet test. Other widely used tests: wechsler intelligence scale for children, wechsler adult intelligence scale.