HD FS 239 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Substance Abuse, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences, Decision-Making
2 Sep 2016
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Cognitive-developmental view: interaction between biological change and environmental stimulation leads to intellectual growth. Each stage is characterized by a particular type of thought. Abstract system of logical reasoning (formal operations) is main difference between adolescent and child thinking. Sensorimotor stage: birth 2 years. Preoperational stage: 2 7 years. Concrete operational stage: 7 11 years. Formal operational stage: 11 adulthood. Explain cognitive development in terms of the growth of specific components of the thinking process. Five areas of improvement: selective attention and divided attention, working and long-term memory, autobiographical memories, processing speed, organization, metacognition. Typical neuronal cell: brain has 100. Both structural and functional changes in the brain during adolescence: important changes in: Changes in the prefrontal cortex improve efficiency of information-processing: synaptic pruning. Reflects improved connectivity within and between brain regions. Changes in how brain is affected by certain neurotransmitters: dopamine (role in experience of reward, serotonin (role in experience of different moods)
