PS276 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Group Dynamics, Sensation Seeking, Lev Vygotsky
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Changes in cognition, or thinking, represent the second of three fundamental changes that occur during adolescence the others being the biological changes of puberty and the transition into new social roles. Thinking about possibilities: deductive and inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning is a type of logical reasoning in which you draw logically necessary conclusions from a general set of premises, or givens, e. g. ) Thinking about thinking: metacognition during adolescence often involves monitoring your own cognitive activity during the thinking process, e. g. ) In terms of behaviour and thinking, adolescents describe themselves and others in more differentiated and complicated terms and find it easier to look at problems from multiple perspectives. Sarcasm and south park: only by attending simultaneously to multiple dimensions of speech can we distinguish between the sincere and the sarcastic. Young adolescents may demonstrate formal thinking at some times but at others many think only in concrete terms: 2.
