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Developmental Psychology Lecture 7 Notes
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- 1What is Adolescence?The growth between childhood and adulthood.
Ages 10-19.
Linked to puberty.
Childhood ends when puberty begins. - 2What hormonal changes do boys and girls encounter?Girls start releasing estrogen and progesterone.
Boys start releasing testosterone. - 3What are the 4 key processes of brain development and what do they do?1. Neurogenesis = Formation of new neurons
2. Neuronal Pruning = Culling of neurons
3. Synaptogenesis = Forming new connections
4. Synaptic Pruning = Culling of connections - 4What is Grey Matter?Cell bodies or soma and unmyelinated axons.
- 5What is White Matter?Myelinated axons
- 6What is Myelin?Myelin makes nerve impulses more efficient, and myelination in frontal lobes peaks in your early 20s.
- 7What is Formal Operational Thought?Develops across adolescence (age 12+)
Ability to hypothesize and deduce: scientific thought
Shift from concrete to abstract an symbolic thought
Tests of FOT: Third eye problem, Pendulum problem
Formal Operational Thought is more common (but not universal) in adolescence. - 8What is Post-Formal Thought?The theoretical 5th stage of thought; More relativistic, accept moral complexities, and multiple viewpoints.
Some adults engage in relativistic reasoning, context and perspective are important. Real life problems often don’t have a logical solution. Those who engage in relativistic thought are more supportive of diversity. - 9What cognitive functions continue to improve regardless of age?- Greater creativity
- Better episodic long term memory
- More efficient strategies e.g. elaboration
- Better at inhibiting irrelevant information
- Improvements in executive functions - 10What are the key executive functions?- Planning ahead
- Inhibitory control
- Switching between tasks
- Working memory updating
Executive functions mature later than more basic cognitive functions. Planning, inhibition and switching continue to develop across early adolescence. - 11What is the Theory of Mind?Theory of Mind = Ability to interpret others’ mental states
ToM improves across adolescence and relates to inhibitory capacity.
Across adolescent development there are lower levels of prefrontal activation during ToM tasks.
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