PSYC 2034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Imaginary Audience, Metacognition, Egocentrism

• School: Virginia Tech
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2034
• Professor: P K Harrison

Document Summary

Horizontal decalage children can perform concrete operations logical replaces intuitive reasoning. Understand person can be father, brother, and grandson. Seriation: involves stimuli along quantitative dimensions. Move beyond concrete operations and think more abstract and logically. 11-15 years old abstract, idealistic, and logical thinking: metacognition, verbal problem solving ability increases children solve problems by trial and error think more like scientists. Adolescent egocentrism extreme self consciousness imaginary audience: others interested in them as much as they are, always want to be noticed and visible, don"t see that they are part of a whole. Personal fable: child feels they are unique and no one else has been through experiences they have they are invincible, death can never touch them. Become must more realistic with expectations realistic idealism decreases in face of real world constraints. Pragmatic: switch from acquiring knowledge to applying it reflective and relativistic, move away from absolutist thinking of adolescence.