PSYB20H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Parenting Styles, White Matter, Grey Matter
1 Dec 2016
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15 years old - feels that his parents just don"t, old-fashioned, think adam is obsessed with his phone, & worry about video games & tv. I don"t even know if i really want to go to college/uni. (cid:499) like most 15- year-olds, adam is on cusp of adulthood. How he navigates these next few years will have profound consequences for his life"s trajectory. Adolescents look, think & talk diff from younger children. Their speed of info processing & language abilities continue to increase, though not as dramatically as in middle childhood. They show increases in abilities, retain immature aspects of thought that are characteristically adolescent in nature. These changes are reflected in physical structure of brain. operations age 11. Develop capacity for abstract thought => new, more flexible way to manipulate info. No longer limited to here & now, understand historical time & extraterrestrial space. Use symbols for other symbols, ex: letting letter x stand for unknown numeral,
