EDPY304 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Logical Reasoning, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Personal Fable

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Education - Psychology
• Course: EDPY304
• Professor: Sophie Yohani

Document Summary

Changes in cognition: adolescents think in ways that are more advanced, more efficient, and generally more effective than children, compared to children, adolescents are better at, thinking what is possible, for a child, what is possible is real. For an adolescent, what is real is just as subset of what is possible: allows adolescents to think counterfactually (to think what. Might have been: adolescents can, move easily between actual and possible, generate alternative possibilities and. Explanations systematically: compare the way things are with the way they. Involve abstract concepts like friendships, faith, democracy, fairness, and honesty: thinking about thinking, metacognition: the process of thinking about thinking itself, eg. Relative: more likely to question others" assertions and less likely to accept. Processing speed: the increased in speed of information processing occurs mainly in early adolescence, processing speed does not change very much between middle adolescence and young adulthood.