PSY312H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Long-Term Memory, Deductive Reasoning, Crystallization
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Piaget: postformal: ability to reason and abstract is at its height, reaches highest peak at around age. Realizing there"s a very complex relationship between cognition and affect (how you think and how you feel) New, grow and better, sophistication, deterioration, things can get worse. As you get older, brain gets worse. Dualistic thinking: understanding that you have a brain but it might be separate from what you think. Relativistic thinking: is this how i should think in this environment. Commitment within relativistic thinking: morgan: scream at me. (you"re gonna think you can"t do that) Challenges, opportunities to reflect, and peers all contribute to development. Adulthood brings the chance to solve real-world problems: balancing roles. Balancing job + school: new ways of thinking. You make decisions for yourself now: compromise. Twenty-year-old says: we have to find a compromise. Cognitive-affective complexity grows: adult emotional intelligence, understanding relationship between emotions and thoughts: peaks at around mid-
