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Chapter 15

Chapter 15. Adolescent Cognitive Development. Michael Hoerger. Piaget. Formal Operational Thought: Logical reasoning about abstract ideas. Hypothetical Thought: reasoning from a basic premise, which may or may not be true

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Chapter 15

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  1. Chapter 15 Adolescent Cognitive Development Michael Hoerger

  2. Piaget • Formal Operational Thought:Logical reasoning about abstract ideas

  3. Hypothetical Thought: reasoning from a basic premise, which may or may not be true • “If your partner’s parents saw you buying condoms at Meijer, what would you do?” • “How would our lives be different if John Kerry had won the Presidency?”

  4. Inductive Reasoning: reasoning from specific experiences to a general rule • “I enjoy watching Doogie Howser, ER, and House… so I must like medical dramas.” • Deductive Reasoning: reasoning from general rules to specific or new situations • “I enjoy medical dramas… so if I tried watching Grey’s Anatomy, I might like that too”

  5. Reasoning & Science Observations and findings Inductive Theory Deductive New Experiments

  6. Limitations of Piaget • Even in adulthood, people continue to make a number of reasoning errors • “Bounded rationality” • What reasoning errors persist?

  7. Framing effects • Hindsight bias • Confirmation bias • Errors in emotional prediction • Illusions of causality • Ignoring the law of large numbers • Self-serving bias • Uncle George’s pancakes fallacy • Fundamental Attribution Error • Domain specificity

  8. Michael Hoerger To cite this textbook: • Berger, K. (2005). The developing person through the lifespan. New York: Worth. To cite this lecture: • Hoerger, M. (2007, March 14). Developmental Psychology: Adolescent Cognitive Development. Presented at a PSY 220 lecture at Central Michigan University.

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