CFD 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Logical Truth, Personal Fable, Decision-Making
19 Dec 2018
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Piaget"s theory: the formal operational stage: around age 11, young people develop capacity for abstract, systematic, scientific reasoning, hypothetic-deductive reasoning, propositional thought, formal operational adolescents can operate on operations, without referring to concrete things or events. Hypothetic-deductive reasoning: steps in hypothetic-deductive reasoning, start with hypothesis: prediction about variables that might affect an outcome, from hypothesis, deduce logical, testable inferences, systematically isolate and combine variables to see which inferences are confirmed in real world. Propositional thought: adolescents can evaluate logic of propositions (verbal statements) without referring to real-world circumstances. In contrast, children can evaluate logic of statements only by considering them against concrete real-world evidence: piaget acknowledged importance of language in formal operations. Inhibition improves: attention becomes more selective, strategies become more effective, knowledge increases, easing strategy use, metacognition expands, cognitive self-regulation improves, working memory increases. Consequences of adolescent cognitive changes: self-consciousness and self-focusing, imaginary audience, personal fable.
