PSY310H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Personal Fable, Egocentrism, Long-Term Memory
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I. e: need hypothetical thinking to formulate a position contrary to what you really believe in order to challenge someone else"s reasoning. It also helps the young person to take the perspective of others by enabling him or her to think through what someone else might be thinking or feeling. It helps formulating and arguing a viewpoint because it allows adolescent"s to think a step ahead of the opposition. Imaginary audience having such a heightened sense of self-consciousness that the teenager imagines that his or her behavior is the focus of everyone else"s attention. Feelings of self-consciousness are more intense among girls than boys and peaks at age 15, then declines as the adolescent gains social confidence. This is because parts of the brain that process social info such as perceptions of what others are thinking undergo change during early adolescence and this is when self- consciousness increases.
