Perception and Cognition Across the Life Span – Day 11

Our ability to think about thinking. Either to think about our thoughts, or to think about the thought of others

The study of how we develop an understanding of the world (Piaget). According to Piaget we develop intelligence through our construction of reality and learn through experience.

Organization: We systematically organize new information to fit our emerging schema Adaption: Adjusting to the demands of the environment/situation Assimilation: Incorporating new information into their existing knowledge Accommodation: Adapting ones existing knowledge to new information

Sensorimotor age: birth-2 years Pre-operational: 2-7 Concrete operational: 7-11 Formal operations: 11-adulthood

-Object permanence -A-not-B error -Emergence of the use of symbols -We use language and other symbols to represent the physical and reality of the world

Last of conservation -Reversibility -Experiment -Centration V. de-centration -Movement from static to transformational thought -Egocentrism

-Development of conservation -Seriation (group things in different order) -Transitivity

Thought it more abstract: -Verbal problem- solving ability -Increased tendency to think about thought itself -Thought it full of idealism and possibilities -Thought it more logical -Hypothetical-deductive reasoning

-Monitoring ones own cognitive activity during the process of thinking -Increased introspection, self-consciousness, and intellectualization -Adolescent egocentrism/ imaginary audience and personal fable

Knowing what other people are thinking and not making the same mistakes as them

What the adolescence is capable of doing and what the adolescence actually foes in the attestant situation