Adolescent Cognition: Thinking in a New Key (Davidson Films, Inc.)

It is not just teenage bodies that undergo tremendous changes in adolescence; young minds begin working in new ways that sometimes cause awkward situations just as do the newly elongated legs or deeper voices. Referring to the work of Piaget, Erikson, Goffman and his own studies, David Elkind looks at the intellectual, emotional and social consequences that result from the changes in thinking. These changes permit new ways of reasoning and enable students to take on much more challenging materials, but sometimes the transition results in inconsistent forms of thinking that create social and emotional difficulties.
The film includes a public middle school and structured interviews illustrating the intellectual challenges of this period of life when adolescents are constructing personal identities and new mental capacities.
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[@QueenRissa_34]

I loved this video and even the beginning with the adolescent....I miss being a preteen/adolescent!!! I also had choir class in middle school...I miss those days!!!

[@loveangelangeloflove8129]

My husband is studying the rites of passage in physical and cognitive development and moving into the adult social world in socio-emotional development in adolescence in his human development and learning course on his way to a cognitive studies degree. He is interested in learning more about Kohlberg's Stage 2, in which moral reasoning is based on the aim of looking out of one's own needs.

[@logangomez4475]

Thank you, love. Besides instrumental orientation, I am also interested to learn more about when adolescents and adults generalize feelings of helplessness and believe that they are always at the mercy of external events, with no ability to control their own destinies.