Cognitive Development of Adolescents

This document will help you in understanding the Cognitive Development of Adolescents

Conceptual knowledge : Acquired interpretive understandings stored in long term memory
Declarative knowledge : Acquired factual knowledge stored in long term memory
Egocentrism : a stage of self-absorption where the world is seen only from one’s own perspective
Formal Operations : Formal operations refer to the ability to perform mental operations with abstract, intangible concepts
Metacognition : The knowledge that people have about their own thinking processes, and their ability to monitor their cognition
Personal fable : A related construct, denotes adolescents’ convictions of their own personal uniqueness, giving rise to the sense of being ‘special’
Prepositional thinking : Propositional thought is reasoning that uses abstract logic in the absences of concrete examples
Procedural knowledge : Acquired skills stored in long term memory