Cognitive Development of Adolescents

AdolescenceThe Cognitive Development

I would there were no age between sixteen andthree-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out therest; for there is nothing in the between butgetting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry,stealing, fighting—Hark you now!The Winter’s Tale – Act III, Scene III

William Shakespeare

COGNITIONThe set of all mental abilities and processes related to knowledge.

Thinking

Understanding

Learning

Remembering

It is NORMAL for adolescents to:

Argue for the sake of arguing.

Walker and Taylor, 1991

Jump to conclusions.

Jaffe, 1998

Be self-centered.

Jaffe, 1998

Constantly find fault in the adult’s position.

Bjorklund and Green, 1992

Be overly dramatic.

Jaffe, 1998

The Cognitive Development

Early Adolescence

• Growing capacity for abstract thought.

• Mostly interested in present with limited thought to

the future.

• Intellectual interests expand and become more

important.

• Deeper moral thinking.

11-13 years of age

Middle Adolescence

• Continued growth capacity for

abstract thought.

• Greater capacity for setting goals.

• Interest in moral reasoning.

• Thinking about the meaning of life.

14-18 years of age

Late Adolescence

• Ability to think ideas through.

• Ability to delay gratification.

• Examination of inner experiences.

• Increased concern for future.

• Continued interest in moral reasoning.

19-21 years of age

Jean Piaget

Theory of Cognitive Development

•The Sensorimotor Stage

•The Preoperational Stage

•The Concrete Operational

Stage

•The Formal Operational Stage

The Formal Operational Stage

Logic

Abstract Thought

Problem-Solving

The Prefrontal Cortex

• Unregulated Experimentation

• Alcohol

• Unsafe Sex

• Extreme out-of-control activities

Sleep

Exercise

Eating

Growing up is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to

skip it and go from one childhood to another.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Child and Adolescent Development

Adolescent’s Cognitive Development

Presented by:Talaboc, Clarice Anne D.II-6 AB/BSE Literature

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