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Compared to children, adolescents are more
sophisticated in their ability to:x5 |
(1) Think about possibilities
(2) Think about abstract concepts (3) Think about thinking (metacognition) (4) Think in multiple dimensions (5) See knowledge as relative (relativism) |
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An example of "thinking about possibilities"
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•Ways in which their lives might be affected by different career choices
•Moves easily between the specific and the abstract to generate alternative possibilities
•Development of deductive reasoning
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•Monitoring one’s own cognitive activity during thinking
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Netacognition
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•Ability to see things as relative rather than as absolute
•Skepticism becomes common
•Everything may seem uncertain
•No knowledge seems completely reliable
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Adolescent relativism
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•Each stage is characterized by a particular type of thought
•Adolescent thinking is thought to be qualitatively different from the type of thinking employed by children
(a perspective on development based on the work of piaget, that takes a qualitiative, stage theory approach. |
•Cognitive-developmental view
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Two types of adolescent egocentrism
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1. imaginary audience
2. personal fable |
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The belief often brought on by the heightened self-consciousness of early adolescence, that everyone is watching and evaluating ones behavior
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Imaginary audience
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An adolescents beleif that he or she is unique and therefore no subject to the rules that govern other people's behavior
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Personal fable
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What does thinking in multiple dimension mean?
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•Ability to view things from more than one aspect at a time
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By thinking in miltiple dimensions, they •More sophisticated understanding of __
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Probability
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Thinking in multiple dimensions helps people to understand 2 things:
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- understand sarcasm
- understand double entendres |
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•Ability to see things as relative rather than as absolute
•Skepticism becomes common
•Everything may seem uncertain
•No knowledge seems completely reliable
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Adolescent relativism
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The 4 stages of piaget's view
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- sensorimotor stage
- preoperational - concreate operational - formal operations |
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Stage from birth to 2
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Sensorimotor stage
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Stage from 2 - 6
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Preoperational
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