FRHD 2280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Theory Of Multiple Intelligences, Myelin, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2280
• Professor: Jenny Glozman

Document Summary

Education (it values and fosters critical thinking) Behavioural decision theory: (decision making process) i. e. what to do after undergrad. Identifying the consequences that would result: evaluating the desirability of each consequence, assessing the likelihood of each consequence. If we know late adolescents are good at decision-making, why do they make bad decisions/take risks? : Teenage brain (brain development is still occurring in adolescents. Emotional brain shows earlier development than the thinking brain. How we think about other people, social relationships, and social institutions. 2 aspects: perspective taking (understand the thoughts/feelings of other people) and adolescent egocentrism (having difficulty distinguishing your own thoughts about yourself from the thoughts of other people) Early adolescence: mutual perspective taking (perspective taking interactions with other people are mutual) i. e. if holding a book, and asks. How was the book assume the book in hand and not another book.