PS276 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Prefrontal Cortex, Synaptic Pruning, Personal Fable
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5 ways adolescences are smarter than children: adolescence are able to think about possibilities, adolescents are able to think about abstract things, adolescents thinking about thinking, adolescents think in a more multidimensional, adolescents thinking in relativism. Deductive reasoning: deductive reasoning: when you draw logical reasoning and conclusion from a general set of givens. Hypothetical thinking: if then thinking, this thinking requires planning ahead, seeing the future consequences of an action, and to providing different explanations of events, this thinking allows us to. Ht helps in formulating and arguing a viewpoint, it allows adolescents to think one step ahead: plays an important role in decision making. Allows them to see consequences of choosing one alternative over another. Thinking about thinking: metacognition: the process of thinking about thinking itself. Often involves monitoring your own cognitive activity during the thinking process. Eg: creating strategies to remember things: adolescence are also good at explaining the processes they are using.
