Exam 15: Adolescence: Cognitive Development

The belief that unless one's number is up, one cannot be harmed by things that would hurt someone else is referred to as _____.

Playing video games has not been associated with aggression in adolescents.

An approach to understanding intelligence that holds that intelligence can be directly increased by effort is referred to as the _____ approach.

In an experiment by Inhelder and Piaget that involved balancing a scale with weights, the age at which children were first able to use the trial-and-error method to achieve some understanding of balancing was approximately 10 years.

Jeremy is 7 years old and has been asked to balance a scale with weights that can be hooked to the arms of the scale. Jeremy will probably _____.

Which of the following statements is true?

Explain what is meant by the term digital natives. Describe two benefits and two downsides of being a digital native.

Analytic thought and intuitive thought both develop during adolescence, although analytic thought often overrides intuitive thought when many adolescents are together.

Which of the following outcomes suggests a possible video game addiction?

Fifteen-year-old Latrina has a 10 P.M. curfew. She asks her parents to extend her curfew to 11 P.M. on weekends. When her parents ask her why, Latrina replies, "I've never been late for my 10 P.M. curfew. You can trust me. Can we at least give it a try?" This is an example of what kind of thinking?

Sixteen-year-old Clarissa is learning to multiply unreal numbers-e.g., (17x)(-4y)-because she is in the _____ operational stage of cognitive development.

In _____ reasoning, one begins with a general premise and draws logical, specific conclusions from it.

Who are considered to be "digital natives" in the United States?

"If-then" propositions require _____.

Hypothetical thought involves reasoning only about propositions that reflect reality.

In our current technology explosion, adolescents can be described as _____.

Secondary education traditionally refers to _____.

The notion that two networks exist within the human brain, one for emotional and one for analytical processing of stimuli, is called the _____.

High school students can think abstractly, analytically, hypothetically, and logically as well as emotionally and intuitively.

The nations with the best PISA results _____.