PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Imaginary Audience, Prefrontal Cortex, Egocentrism

• School: Pace University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 111
• Professor: Sporin

Document Summary

During adolescence, brain continues to form new neural connections: also casts off unused neurons & connections. Makes them more likely to take risks. Also may not listen to parent"s advice about avoiding danger: also likely to be highly self-conscious. They feel everyone is constantly watching them. Mistakenly believe others must be thinking about them too. Worrying about what others are thinking can sometimes lead negative emotions & behavior: cognitive development in adulthood: Formal operations: abstract, hypothetical thinking, emerged in adolescence, focused on problem solving, Post-formal thinking: reflective thinking, occurs in adulthood, problem finding, dialectical reasoning, solution can be evaluated by looking for possible problems that may result from that action. New solution may emerge from evaluation: adult thinkers are better able to integrate intuition, emotion, & experience into abstract reasoning. Individuals using formal & post-formal thinking may reach same conclusions: reasoning process of mature thinker might include more variables.