PSYCH315 Lecture Notes - Grey Matter, Divergent Thinking, Executive Functions

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Last part to be pruned very last part to be developed: prefontal cortex home of executive functions responsible for planning, setting priorities, organizing your thoughts, suppressing impulses and weighing consequences of your actions. Sensory motor: pre-operational stage, concrete operational, formal operational change abstract and hypothetical thinking (children recognizing that their thought about reality are different); thinking advance. They"re knowing that right answers are context specific. Information processing becomes more advanced during adolescents. Psychometric/ intelligence view (iq: verbal ability, problem-solving skills, ability to adapt and learn from life experience, multiple intelligences, emotional intelligence managing emotions, handling emotions, reading emotions and handling emotion problems. Effects of thought on personality and behavior. Do video games impede adolescent cognitive development: yes: a cross-sectional analysis of video games and attention deficit hyperactivity. Examined time spent playing video games and academic function. Video game play of 1hr plus per day was associated with significantly lower grades and had a negative effect on attention and performance.

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