PSYC 2240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: David Elkind, Parietal Lobe, Prefrontal Cortex

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

Document Summary

Teens think in more advanced, efficient ways. Adolescent thinking is not tied to concrete events. Increase in arguments with parents, peers, friends: teens become better arguers. Deductive reasoning increase: drawing logical conclusions from premises. Teens recognize when a problem does not provide enough information. Hypothetical thinking= thinking about others" perspectives (if/then) Thinking about things that cannot be directly experienced. What knowledge is and how it is acquired. Teens can explain what they know and why they know it. Increased self-consciousness: thinking about what others think of us. Imaginary audience: belief that others are watching and one"s behaviour is the focus of other"s. Belief that nothing bad can happen because one is special. Teens can think of many aspects of a situation. Example: preteen may be playing a baseball game. He thinks he"s an all-star and he"ll hit a home run. An adolescent will understand that hitting a home run on the spot is difficult.