Adolescence The Cognitive Development
Jun 26, 2015
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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