01:830:200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Working Memory, Cognitive Development, Limbic System
10 Nov 2016
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Cognitive changes: metacognition is thinking processes/ stepping above your thinking- thinking about thinking, monitoring one"s o(cid:449)n cogniti(cid:448)e acti(cid:448)ity during thinking. Increased self-consciousness: thinking that others are thinking of us. Metacognitive consequences david elkind focused on this: adolescent egocentrism. Personal fable idea that adolescents are suppose to have that they are unique. Experiences are unique: nothing bad can happen to them because they are special- idea that you are so special that nothing is going to happen to you. Anything in your mind people will notice: believe that everyone is watching, beha(cid:448)ior is the focus of other"s concern, thinking in multiple dimensions, ability to view things from more than one aspect at a time. Understand puns, sarcasm, double-entendres: adolescent relativism. Example lying situations where its okay to lie: ability to see things as relative rather than as absolute. Theoretical perspectives on cognitive changes: piagetian view of development of thinking. Information-processing view: john piaget spent his time observing the thinking processes.
