PSYCH 250 Lecture 15: Adolescence: Cognitive Development
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Thinking is abstract - and no longer tied to concrete or personal experiences. Adolescents can now engage in hypothetical thought -- reasoning about if-then propositions that do not reflect reality. If dogs are bigger than elephants, and mice are bigger than dogs . Inductive (or bottom-up) reasoning dominates the middle childhood years. By age 14, adolescents are capable of deductive (or top-down) reasoning. Dual-process model refers to the notion that there are two pathways in the brain. Quick & powerful, but may be illogical. In a series of studies, klaczynski (2001, 2011) presented 19 logic problems to 9- Most adolescents (73%) made at least one analytic error. They intuitively jumped to a wrong conclusion rather than use logic. Logical thinking improved with age & education (but not iq) As we age, our thinking moves from intuitive processing to more analytical processing. Overall, adolescents tend to favor intuitive thinking rather than analytic .
