01:830:333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Executive Functions, Pragmatism, Prefrontal Cortex

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

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03/15/2016 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Lecture 8 - cognitive changes, brain changes, effects. Greater awareness of the complexity of real-life situations. Pragmatism (labouvie-vief: type of thinking that involves adapting logical thinking to the practical constraints of real-life situations, ex: if you give adolescents scenario: wife of heavy drinker say. Do this again and i will leave you . Adolescents would say wife would leave him. Young adults would say wife would give another chance. Reflective judgment (perry: the capacity to evaluate the accuracy and logical coherence of evidence and arguments. Selective attention and divided attention: selective: the ability to focus on relevant information while screening out information that is irrelevant. Better with age: divided: the ability to focus on more than one task at a time. Working memory and long-term memory: working: an aspect of short-term memory that refers to where information is stored as it is comprehended and analyzed.