PSYC 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Inductive Reasoning, Cognitive Flexibility, Executive Functions

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2110
• Professor: Jessica Sutherland

Document Summary

Able to use mental operations to figure out rules to help them make sense of the world around them. Capacity to mentally reverse an operation: transformation can be done. 1 + 2 = 3, or, 3 - 2 = 1. Kinds in this stage do not have the capabilities for abstract thought, not advanced logic for reasoning. Able to understand conservation of numbers, mass, and continuous quantity. Can understand larger organizational classes as well as their particular subclass. Can put things in order from smallest to largest. Capacity to organize units along some quantitative dimension. Capacity to combine relations between objects in order to draw logical conclusions. A > b, b > c so then, a > c. Can take the particular things they are experiencing and apply that to broader rules. Executive functioning: working memory, cognitive flexibility, and behavioral inhibition (impulse control) Creating stories, links, images between information to be retained and.