HDF 371 Lecture 12: Autonomy and Decision Making
1 Mar 2018
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Infants acquire information about the word by sensing it and moving around within it. Preoperational (age 2 to age 7): learn about physical objects, emergence of symbolic thought, role of language, can imagine and hold memories. Concrete operational stage (age 6 to age 11): can think and talk about real-world problems; cause and effect; reversibility: conservation: the notion that the quantitative properties of an object are invariant despite (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ges i(cid:374) the o(cid:271)je(cid:272)t"s appeara(cid:374)(cid:272)e. Piaget"s theory: formal operational stage, more abstract than concrete operational though. Increased tendency to think about though itself: thoughts of idealism and possibilities, more logical thought, hypothetical-deductive reasoning creating a hypothesis and deducing its implications, evaluati(cid:374)g piaget"s theory, research indicates, there is much more individual. Influenced by immediate reward: fall back on well-learned, intuitive judgements. Adolescence is peak time for: reckless driving and more motor vehicle crash rates, violent and nonviolent criminal activity, experimentation with alcohol, tobacco, and drugs, condomless sex.
