PSYB20H3 Chapter 15: Chapter 15
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Chapter 15 cognitive development in adolescence: cognitive development, piaget"s stages of formal operations, formal operations: final stage of cognitive development characterized by the ability to think abstractly. Develops around age 11. ;flexible way to manipulate info, and no longer limited to here and now. Can now understand historical time and extraterrestrial space. Can use symbols (ex: x in calculus variables) and allegory (life of pi) ; form hypotheses and possiblitiles and appreciate metaphors. Can link past to present to future: hypothetical-deductive reasoning: ability believed to accompany the stage of formal operations, which develops, considers, and tests hypotheses. Considering relationships and testing them systematically: example of hypothetical-deductive reasoning (the pendulum problem and other piagetian tasks): Length of string, weight of object, height from which object is released, and amount of force used to push object. At age 7 -> preoperational stage -> random method/hit or miss.
