01:830:101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Stereotype Threat, James Rest, Mother Teresa

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: L.Jacobs

Document Summary

In piaget"s cognitive devel stages, there is usually just 4, ending w/ formal operational, this is the proposed 5th stage. Extends adolescent thinking by being more practical, flexible, and creative. Characterized by the use of formal analysis. Occurs as a person is less impulsive and reactive and more practical and imaginative. Makes sense because they are less impulsive and reactive as they grow older. The possibility that one"s appearance or behavior will be misread to confirm another"s oversimplified, prejudiced attitudes; self-imposed. Suggests that the mere possibility of being negatively stereotyped arouses anxiety that can disrupt cognition, distort emotional regulation, and achievement. Dialectical thought is part of the postformal thought which is the most advanced cognitive process. Dialectical thought involves ability to consider a thesis and its antithesis and arrive at a synthesis. Dialectical thought is the ability to synthesize something after being given both sides of the topic.