CH 3 Cognitive Changes Flashcards
Plasticity
brain changes
- the younger u are, the faster it is for brain to repair itself
Assimiliation
using prior knowledge when faced with new info
Accomadation
replacing prior knowledge when responding to new info
Competence-Performance Gap
adolescents have an idea about their competence but its different from their performance
Inductive Reasoning
drawing conclusions from specific to general
What are the Formal Operations used by Adolescents in their daily lives
- hypotheticals = questioning rules
- understanding more than one meaning to smth = literal and figuratives
- metaphors and sarcasm
Decentration
opposite. of egocentrism
looking at things from others POVs
Elkind’s Imaginary Audience and Personal Fable
- the imaginary aduience notices everything u do
- perosnal fable is ur belief in ur thoughts, feelings and experiences that are unique
- can make adole feel isolated
Reflective Abstraction
adole hav power to consider what they know and extend it to new probs and siutatiosn
How dp Adolescents use their executive control structure when problem solving
- use mental representations of a goal or outcome
- look at difference approaches n strats to rech them
- they get better with this with age and brain maturation
The Developmental Cascade
- increased procesing speed
- improved working memory
- increased fluid intelligence - reasoning
what are the Fuzzy Traces that adolescents use?
- more intuition cuz it uses less mental energy for them
- easier for them to store in their memory
Psychometric View
- likes interlligence tests cuz it pins down what intelligence really is
Downsides to IQ tests for kids
- they can be put into classes that doesnt provide witht eh necessary learning opportunities
- high and low expectations can lead to self-fulfilling propecies (negative ones)
- can be on students records for life
Sternberg : Analytical Intelligence
ability to analyze, judge, evaluate, compare and contrast info
