PSYC 2240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Orbitofrontal Cortex, Limbic System, Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2240
• Professor: Daniel Beliciu

Document Summary

Adolescents are smarter than children not just because they gain more information, but also because they think in more advanced ways. Also allows us to suspend out beliefs in order to argue in the abstract. Has implications for social behaviour; allows you to take the perspective of others. 4/29/16: adolescent egocentrism: (david elkind) intellectual advances may result in problems before the adolescent adjusts - being able to introspect may lead to periods of extreme self-absorption. Example: girl walking down the hallway, hears someone laugh, assumes they are laughing at her: imaginary audience: the belief, often brought on by the heightened self-consciousness of early adolescence that everyone is watching and evaluating one"s behaviour. Example: doing drugs, smoking, texting and driving. Piaget"s theory of cognitive development: a cognitive-developmental view is a perspective on development based on the work of piaget which takes a 1. qualitative and 2. stage-like approach. According to piaget, cognitive development occurs through four stages: 1.