Cognitive

Development
of High School
Learners
 Learning Outcomes:

 Describe the cognitive development of adolescents in the light

of Piagets and Sieglers cognitive development theories.
 Define overachievement and underachievement, and propose
solutions to underachievement.
 Draw implications of these cognitive developmental concepts
to high school teaching-learning and parenting.

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 COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

These changes are marked by the acquisition

of new cognitive skills due to the brains increasing in
weight and refining synaptic connections (technically
known as corpus collosum).
Another brain development is the process of
correlated temporal and parietal areas (technically
known as myelination)

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 Through brain scanning, three peaks in brain
maturation have been identified by neurological scientists and
these are at age 12, 15 and 18 coinciding with operational
thinking process for logical reasoning.

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 PIAGETS FORMAL OPERATIONAL
THINKER

Piaget formulated the theory of Formal Operational

Thinking which demonstrates how the cognitive capacity of
the adolescent allows him/her to go beyond the sensible and
concrete in order to dwell on what is abstract, hypothetical
and possible.

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Formal operational thinking consists:

» Propositional Thinking
» Relativistic Thinking
» Real versus Possible

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Indications:

Combinational Analysis
Hypothetic- Deductive Reasoning

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Siegler’s Information Processing Skills

Metacognition

Overachievement

Underachievement
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1.Metacognition

Information processing
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2. Overachievement

Characteristics of overachiever
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3. Underachievement

Withdrawn underachievers
Aggressive underachivers
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Behavior and Adolescent Cognitive Growth

Egocentrism

Idealism

Increased
argumentativeness
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Implications to Adolescent Care, Education and
Parenting

◍ Activities at home
◍ Allowing more independence
◍ Activities in school
◍ Develop reading skills

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 Developing Occupational Skills

Realistic Conventional

Investigative

Enterprising Artistic

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 Capability for Multitasking

Self- reliance Money management

Social responsibility Mature work orientation

Personal responsibility Positive attitude to work

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