Cognitive Development during Adolescence
Cognitive Development during Adolescence Adolescents- Cognitive development does not halt in childhood; on the contrary it continues throughout adolescence and results, ultimately, in more mature modes of thought (Klaczynski, 1997). Theory of mind– their understanding of how they and others think- continues to think and develop. Younger children take what has been described as a realistic approach to knowledge; they believe that knowledge is a property of the real world and that there are definite facts or truths that can be acquired. In contrast, older children and preadolescents become aware of the fact that specialists often disagree; this leads them to progress a relativist approach, which identifies that different people may interpret the same information in contrasting ways. Preadolescents go a bit farther, opting a defended realism approach, which identifies the difference between facts… Read More »Cognitive Development during Adolescence