PSY 2114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Reciprocal Liking, Monogamy, Longitudinal Study

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2114
• Professor: Wendy Lee

Document Summary

Cognitive development: piaget"s concrete operations, executive functioning. Socioemotional development: the family system and parents, siblings, peers and friends, piaget"s concrete operations. No longer have limitations of preoperations stage: egocentric, appearance vs reality, centration. Can use mental operations cognitive actions that can be performed on objects or ideas: manipulate things in their head. Understand that events can be seen in different perspectives. Things can be reversed (e. g. , pouring in centration tasks) Can consider two dimensions or perspectives at same time and integrate them: but. Thinking is limited to concrete , the tangible, here and now: have trouble with abstract thinking and deductive reasoning. 3 different rope lengths: different heights at which it is dropped. Important in goal-directed behaviour and problem solving (ceo of your brain) Inhibitory control: working memory, set-shifting (shift from one way of thinking to another) Note how some of processes maps onto information processing. Developmental changes: part of brain that develops into adolescence.