Kamis, 24 Desember 2009

Cognitive Transitions in Youth

Cognitive Transitions in Youth

In child development, adolescence is considered as the second decade of life a person starts from the age of 10 and lasted until 20.


Adolescence is a time for a child to grow and move from childhood to adulthood. Still, the transition phase from childhood to adulthood.

Unfortunately there is no demarcation line indicating the end of childhood and early adolescence. On the contrary, psychologists believe that when a child moves from childhood to adolescence, he gradually went through a series of transitions that affect the behavior, development and relationships. This is a transition phase of biological, cognitive, social, and emotional.

This article is about the cognitive transition in adolescence.
Cognitive Transition in Adolescence:

Cognitive phase transition is important in child development. This is the stage where teenagers learn to think in a way that is more advanced, efficient and complex than the way the children. Initially, when a child moves into adolescence, he was able to think better. He was able to think about different possibilities rather than limit themselves to what is real as children do. In other words, a teenager can think hypothetically.

Next adolescents develop the ability to think about abstract ideas. For example, teens can understand the meaning of the abstract in word games, proverbs, metaphors and analogies. Since a teenager can think about abstract things, it also allows him to apply advanced reasoning and logic to social issues and ideological. This is clearly seen as a teenager show interest in interpersonal relationships, politics, philosophy, religion, morality, friendship, faith, democracy, honesty and fairness.

The third stage of cognitive transition in adolescence is about the thought process itself, also known as metacognition. This is because it is in a transition phase cognitive showed that adolescents more introspection and self-awareness. Metacognitive offers intellectual advantages but also teenagers negatively affect them. They tend to be more self-centered and always busy with their own self.

Other cognitive changes that you see on teenagers is their ability to think about various things. Children can concentrate on one thing at a time when young people can see many perspectives, and they interpret things in different ways depending on what perspective they hold.

Cognitive transitions at the end of adolescence is the ability to see things as relative. The kids take everything at face value and the world is black and they white. They do not see shades of gray. Adolescents develop the ability to see the gray and that is why they tend not to accept the facts referred to as complete truth. They also learn to question the parents and this can be very annoying because it seemed to question teenager by starting an argument.

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