PSY310H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: One Bad Apple, Cognitive Development, Hogwarts
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Relative to children, adolescents are : better able to think about what is possible, better able to think abstractly, more likely to think about the process of thinking. Compared to children, adolescence are better able to monitor their inner thoughts: more likely to think multidimensionally, more likely to see things as relative as opposed to absolute. This does not mean children are incapable of abstract thought, or seeing things multidimensional. This just means that adolescences are better than children. Children have to be able to understand the relationship between a, b, and c. (i. e. , it doesn"t mater what a, b, c actually means ) Better able than children to think hypothetically: ex. Children have more difficultly thinking about hypothetical situations their thinking is tied to their immediate experience (i. e. , they have to believe that. Researchers recruited sample of children and adolescence and gave them a pendulum. They are given different lengths of strings, and different bulbs of different weights.
