PSY310H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Limbic System, Synaptic Pruning
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Social cognition: how we think about people and our social world. How the brain changes in terms of structure and functions. Adolescents don"t think the same as children or adults. Children are usually focus on what"s happening currently. Adolescents can realize what is real and only one part of what is possible; thinking about the future. Slide 4 and various directions that can occur. Children are not incapable of fantasy and pretend play, but the difference is that adolescents are better at deducing what is concrete and what is possible. Also better in doing it in a systematic fashion. Their reasoning becomes more advanced and infer certain information from a set of information given to them; doesn"t logically follow from the information but we can draw a conclusion based on deductive reasoning. Deductive reasoning: drawing logical conclusions from set premises; adolescents are better than children when using this type of reasoning.