PSY312H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Prefrontal Cortex, Cognitive Development, Genital Stage
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Biological perspective: puberty, storm and stress, freud- genital stage. Perspective: social and culture influence- you form perspectives of the world that are not the same as your parents, you de-idealize them. Begin to form opinions that maybe na ve on global warming. Parents are practical whereas teens do not conform. Balanced pov: both biological and social influences: forms cognitive perspectives a teenager has about the world. Rise in conflict: main source of information are not parents but main source of interaction are peers. A social shift is occurring: adaptive behaviour, psychological distancing, different views of teen readiness for responsibility. Piaget"s theory: formal operational stage- significant changes occurring because of reason, abstract thoughts. Hypothetico-deductive reasoning: deducing hypotheses from a general theory, pendulum problem. Trial and error doesn"t require logic, takes a long time to learn through t-e. learning by logic occurs at this stage. Propositional thought: evaluating the logic of verbal propositions. Pendulum problem: could not solve this until adolescence.
