Unlock the complexities of adolescent development with these comprehensive study notes on adolescent psychology. Designed for students and professionals alike, this resource covers key concepts, theories, and research findings essential for understanding the psychological and emotional growth of te...
thinking occurs in two ways, called dual processing.
• intuitive/analytic, • implicit/explicit, • creative/factual
• contextualized/decontextualized, • unconscious/conscious, • gist/quantitative, •
emotional/intellectual
• experiential/rational, • hot/cold, • systems 1 and 2.
each mode is independent.
The thinking described by the first half of each pair is easier and quicker,
preferred in everyday life.
The discrepancy between the maturation of the limbic system and the prefrontal
cortex reflects this duality.
Intuitive and Analytic Processing: adolescent cognition
helps you understand reality at the moment, without logic or analysis.
Signs and Sensations!
• Intuitive thinking means going with one's first instinct and reaching decisions
quickly based on automatic cognitive processes.
Intuition is not logical.
Instead, while based on deep-seated knowledge, the process feels natural,
almost instinctual.
The subconscious brain attempts to recognize, process, and use patterns of
thinking based on prior experience and the best guess.
The preoperational period (2 to 7 years) is divided into two stages:
• The Symbolic Function Substage occurs between 2 and 4 years of age and is
characterized by the child being able to mentally represent an object that is not
present and a dependence on perception in problem solving.
• The Intuitive Thought Substage, lasting from 4 to 7 years, is marked by greater
dependence on intuitive thinking rather than just perception.
• At this stage, children ask many questions as they attempt to understand the
world around them using immature reasoning.
, • Analytic thought is the formal, logical, hypothetical-deductive thinking. It
involves rational analysis of many factors whose interactions must be calculated,
as in the scale-balancing problem.
Adolescent brains are increasingly myelinated, which makes thought occur with
lightning speed. That can make them fast intuitive thinkers, unlike teachers,
parents etc., who prefers slower and analytic thinking.
Why not use formal operational thinking?
• Klaczynski’s young adolescents had all learned the scientific method in school,
so they knew that scientists use empirical evidence and deductive reasoning. But
why they did not always think like scientists?
1.logic is more difficult than intuition.
2. Once people of any age reach an emotional conclusion (sometimes called a
“gut feeling”), they resist changing their minds.
3. Prejudice is not seen as prejudice; people develop reasons to support their
feelings.
Rewards and Reasons
• More than 7,000 adolescents, beginning at age 12 and ending at age 24, were
repeatedly queried about their ideas, activities, and plans. The results were
“consistent with neurobiological research indicating that cortical regions involved
in impulse control and planning continue to mature through early adulthood [and
that] subcortical regions that respond to emotional novelty and reward are more
responsive in middle adolescence than in either children or adults.”
Sensation-seeking did not necessarily correlate with impulsivity.
Thus, biology (the HPA axis) is not necessarily linked to experience (the
prefrontal cortex).
Brain regions associated with the joy of various sensations, specifically the
nucleus accumbens, are more activated during adolescence than earlier or later.
the limbic system is activated by puberty while the prefrontal cortex is
“developmentally constrained,” maturing more gradually, adolescents are
swayed by their intuition instead of by analysis. One specific is that the
connection between the ventral striatum and the prefrontal cortex changes
during puberty, and that increases risk-taking.
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