HDE 100B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex, Preadolescence, Myelin
25 Sep 2016
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Chapter 2: cognitive transitions in adolescence: adolescent cognitive development. Introduction: adolescence combines ego, logic and emotions ego overwhelms logic sometimes emotions overrides both. There"s implications for risk taking situations: adolescent thinking brain maturation, intense conversation, additional years of schooling, moral challenges, and increased independence occurs between 11 and 18 years of age, characteristics of adolescent thinking. Thinking in terms of relative: thinking about possibilities moves easily between the specific and the abstract to generate alternative possibilities. Ex: ways in which their lives might be affected by different career choices: deductive reasoning and hypothetical thinking are major intellectual accomplishments, development of deductive reasoning. Inductive reasoning reasoning from one or more specific experiences or facts to a general conclusion; may be less cognitively advanced than deduction bottom-up thinking; all ages can do this. Ex: kim, john, julie, tome, liz, and kendra are hockey players. Kim, john julie, tom, liz, and kendra all wear a mouth guard.
