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Cognitive Changes
0. Cognitive changes that characterize the transition
from childhood to adolescence
"0. adolescent egocentrism
"1. Piagetian and information processing perspectives on adolescent thinking
"2. Social cognition and the context of adolescent thinking
"3. adolescent risk-taking and decision-making
Social Changes
"4. Social redefinition of adolescence
"5. evolution of the adolescent
"6. primary changes in social status
Eating Disorders
"7. Film
Question: can these just phenomena of adolescence? Do adults ever experience these forms of
egocentrism?
Cognitive Relativism
"0. adolescent thinking is characterized by relativism, the ability to see that
situations are not just good or bad, black or white, but can be interpreted in
many ways
"1. adolescents can question everything
"2. can lead to extreme skepticism
Theoretical Perspectives
"0. how to account for the fact that adolescents thinking is different and
more advanced than childrens
Piagets Theory of Cognitive Development
"0. cognitive-developmental view of intellectual development
"1. cognition proceeds through a fixed sequence of qualitatively distinct
stages
"2. sensorimotor (birth to 2)
"3. preoperational (2-5/6)
"4. concrete operations (6 - early adolescence)
"5. formal operations (adolescence through adulthood)
"0. transitions from one stage to the next occur when the childs biological
readiness and the demands of the environment bring about a state of
disequilibrium that is resolved by a shift in thinking style
"1. formal reasoning is the end point of Piagetian thinking, ie, thinking in a
system of formal principals of logic (if A or B is true, then C must be true)