FMLY 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 59: Metamemory, Literal And Figurative Language, Metacognition

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Family Social Sciences
• Course: FMLY 1010
• Professor: Christine A.Schippers

Document Summary

Hypothetico-deductive reasoning: ability to derive conclusions from hypothetical premises. Underlies many ideas and behaviors that are common to adolescents, leads to na ve idealism. Na ve idealism: manifested when adolescents use formal operational thinking to mentally construct an ideal world then compare real world with it. Tested girls in cross sectional study at grade 6, 8, 10, 12 on 10 different tasks. Biggest improvements from grade 8 to 10 but overall, grade 12 did best formal operations. Enable adolescents to understand figurative language better, interpreting proverbs. Piaget overly optimistic: only 50-60% of 12th graders solved the two formal operations problems and this is evident since 1960s. Better educated the adult participants in a study of formal operational thinking, greater percentage who displays this kind of reasoning. Process information faster, use processing resources more efficiently, understand own memory processes, more knowledge. By 13/14 years old, adolescent skills exceed those of younger children and continue to improve throughout adolescence.