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 “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?”

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”

Reasoning & Science Observations and findings Inductive Theory Deductive New Experiments

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

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

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.