PSYC 289 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Social Order, Imaginary Audience, Critical Thinking
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Hypthetico-deductive reasoning (adolescence: deducing hypotheses from a general theory. Propositional thought: evaluating the logic of verbal propositions. Esti(cid:373)ates of (cid:272)hildre(cid:374)"s (cid:272)o(cid:373)pete(cid:374)(cid:272)e: school-age children start developing abstract thinking skills. Formal operations may not be universal (at least in the way we test it- western schooling- more math and science based: training, context, culture, culture and education, often fall back on easier thinking (heuristics- mental shortcuts) Working memory and processing speed content knowledge (as they move through high school they become almost as knowledgeable as adults in some content) strategies and metacognitive skills. Decision making: young adolescents, generate options, examine from a variety of perspectives, anticipate the consequences, consider the credibility of sources. Increased speed and capacity: more breadth of content knowledge, ability to construct new knowledge combinations, strategies (greater range and use) Imaginary audience: where they feel like everybody in the room is looking at them. Cha(cid:374)ges i(cid:374) perso(cid:374)"s ideas a(cid:271)out justi(cid:272)e a(cid:374)d right a(cid:374)d (cid:449)ro(cid:374)g, a(cid:374)d in moral behavior.
