PSY 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Memory Span, Reductionism, Hideki Matsutake

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3105
• Professor: David Collins

Document Summary

Cognitive development involves learning how to coordinate activities of the senses with motor activities. Capable of representing the world symbolically (e. g. language) Become more adept at using mental operations which leads to a more advanced understanding of the world. Allows adolescents to reason about more complex tasks and problems involving multiple variables. Formal operations in adolescence: this stage is pivotal in cognitive development in adolescence. Involves the ability to think scientifically and apply those concepts: task of the pendulum problem, hypothetical-deductive reasoning is the ability to arrive and defend an answer, abstract thinking. Formal operations: formal operations better at inductive reasoning, from particular facts to general conclusion, h-d reasoning, from general hypothesis to specific conclusion. Consider: h-d (gen hyp particular conclusion, if all psychology profs at uottawa have ph. d. s, and david is a prof at uottawa, david has a ph. d.