Exam 15: Adolescence: Cognitive Development

Rachel and Matt are in their first year of middle school. Statistically, one would expect their academic achievement to _____.

Which term refers to the ability to begin with specifics, such as accumulated facts, and then make general conclusions?

The common middle school schedule that involves students changing rooms, teachers, and classmates every 40 minutes _____.

Elle, an adolescent, believes that government should pay for all citizens' health care. From this premise, she reasons about the particulars of how and why government-funded health care would work. This is an example of _____.

Aaron has a busy week of school ahead. He has a report due in history, a paper due in English, a test in biology, a concert for music, and two basketball games. In order to effectively manage all of these activities, Aaron will need to engage what type of thought?

Students who played the computer game called Mission Biotech to learn about genetics and molecular biology scored _____ on tests of the standard biology curriculum than students who did not use the game.

Adolescents place a very high value on social warmth and friendships.

During puberty, adolescents' thoughts center on _____.

Acute self-consciousness about physical appearance is much more prevalent between the ages of 16 and 20 than earlier or later.

The power of the invincibility fable may be observed in _____.

Adolescents' belief that others are as intensely interested in them as they are in themselves is referred to as the invincibility fable.

What is Piaget's fourth and final stage of cognitive development?

Students who hold the _____ believe that they can master whatever they seek to understand.

When adolescents fantasize about how others will react to their new hairstyle, they are creating a(n) _____.

Three different girls tell Brian that Titanic is their all-time favorite movie. He concludes that all girls love that movie. Brian has just used _____.

The belief in an imaginary audience makes adolescents self-conscious.

Many U.S. states require high school students to pass high-stakes _____ in order to graduate.

Ron thinks he is more unique and admired than other adolescents his age, and he is certain that everyone is paying attention to his every action. It appears that Ron has started to experience adolescent _____.

Research has found that logical thinking improved with age and education, but not with _____.

A thought that arises through a feeling that the thought is "right" is referred to as a(n) _____ thought.