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- Piagetian Development
- Background
- Genetic Epistimology
- Why does development occur?
- Piaget Applied:
- Fundamental changes from concrete to formal operations:
- greater abstraction
- multidimsional
- Social Cognition
- adolescent egocentrism (Elkind):
- What is required to know what other people think of you?
- Awareness of thought processes (thinking about thinking)
- Theory that differentiates thoughts of self and others
- Accurate prediction
- implicit personality theories (Baremboim):
- Age related change in use of psychological attributes
- Increased differentiation of global v. contextual attributes
- integration of Elkind & Baremboim:
- Early & middle adolescence:
- realization of psychological attributes
- inability to differentiate cognitions of self and other
- Late adolescence:
- differentiation of cognition
- increased accuracy
- includes assessment of personality