PSY310H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Metacognition, Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex, Organismic Theory
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Thinking about what is possible: this does not mean that children are unable to think about what is possible, children tend to focus on here and now and think in very concrete terms. Pendulum problem: piaget"s experiment that he used to study cognition of preadolescents. Adolescents compared to children would take this task with more comparative approach, they use hypothetical thinking and they are also able to reason about it. Counter-arguments: it is not that adolescents are more argumentative than children, but because they are able to think hypothetically, they are becoming better arguers, and this may be because they are able to create counter- arguments. Abstract thinking: adolescents are capable of thinking about concepts in abstract - what cannot be directly experienced through sense, on the other hand children"s thinking is tied to here and now. For example, if you ask children if they know what. Introspection: being able to think about your own feelings.
