PSY 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Matura, Imaginary Audience, Frontal Lobe

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3105
• Professor: Philip Wall

Document Summary

Capable of represening the world symbolically (e. g. language) Become more adept at using mental operaions which leads to. Allows adolescents to reason about more complex tasks and: metacognition: awareness of thinking processes. Limitations of piaget"s theory: stage of formal operations has been the most critiqued, 2 categories: Beyond piaget: pragmatism vs reflective judgement, pragmatic = making logical decisions based on knowledge about the world. Vygotsky"s approach to cognitive development: role of social interactions in development (interaction in environment) 2: learning from those with more skills will trigger your own cognitive processes (see it. The role of mental resources: ability to think about more things and more kinds of things, executive control structures direct thinking, mental activities become more automatic, less effortful. Wednesday, march 30, y: processing speed improves with adolescence, developmental cascade. Processing information: speed: axons get myelinated, non efficient synapses are pruned off, automaticity: automatic working memory & attention processing.