PSY312H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Gap Year, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Disabilities Affecting Intellectual Abilities
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Perry: epistemic cognition: socrates: his philosophical style was: what do you think? , plato: i think therefore i am , young adulthood, this is where we are contemplating these things. We are becoming more philosophical we are contemplating: labouvie-vief, pragmatic thought, cognitive-affective complexity. You realize that you can control your emotions. Logical thinking and emotions and you are realizing you can control the cognitive thinking to changes these emotions. Psychotherapy: controlling cognition to keep emotions in check. In fact, in most form of psychotherapy is cognitive (useful in adults) and behavioural (useful in children) What we use now is cognitive-behavioural therapy we want to see how you behave, and work on what we can change. Development of pragmatic thought: adulthood brings the chance to solve real-world problems, balancing roles, new ways of thinking, compromise, cognitive-affective complexity grows, adult emotional intelligence. Cognitive-affective complexity across adulthood: cognitive and affect complexity increases significantly in teen years, and especially in early adulthood.
