01:830:333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Inductive Reasoning, Metacognition, Egocentrism

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:333
• Professor: E.Mayhew

Document Summary

Main ad(cid:448)antages o(cid:448)er children"s thought: (1) thinking about possibilities (2) thinking about abstract concepts (3) thinking about thinking (metacognition) (4) thinking in multiple dimensions (5) seeing knowledge as relative (relativism: thinking about possibilities. Adolescents move easily between the specific and the abstract to generate alternative possibilities: chips. Eyes: arguments, thinking about abstract concepts, abstract concepts, abstract relationships. Analogies: ability to comprehend higher-order abstract logic: Further development of deductive and inductive reasoning. Hypothetico-deductive reasoning: metacognition- the capacity for thinking about thinking that allows adolescents and adults to monitor and reason about their thought processes, 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. Experiences are unique: nothing bad can happen to them because they are special. Imaginary audience: believe that everyone is watching, behavior is the focus of other"s concern, thinking in multiple dimensions, ability to view things from more than one aspect at a time.