Exam 5: Cognitive Development: Improvements in Thinking, Reasoning, and Decision Making

Rami is trying to decide whether to go to the movies with friends or stay home and watch TV with his family.This illustrates Moshman's idea of:

Which of the following statements about formal operational thinking is FALSE?

Which of the following is a type of intelligence that Gardner has considered adding to his list of intelligences?

Which of the following is NOT considered a form of reasoning?

Barney and Fred both hear the same loud noise.Barney thinks it's thunder whereas Fred thinks it's a dinosaur.Their different reactions are based on different:

List and explain the three parts of Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence.

Piaget's second stage of cognitive development,which extends from about two to about seven years of age,is:

Jasmine is a biologist who is excellent at identifying and classifying reptiles and amphibians.According to Gardner,which intelligence does Jasmine possess?

The belief that others are as concerned with your appearance and behavior as you are is called:

The adolescent feeling of uniqueness and invulnerability is known as:

During adolescence the ratio of excitatory synapses to inhibitory synapses changes from 7:1 to:

Which of the following preoperational stage phenomena best explains young children's tendency to think trees and flowers have thoughts and feelings?

The adolescent's ability to think about their own thinking illustrates:

Once when Sangeeta was playing video games she started to sneeze uncontrollably.She now thinks that video games cause her to sneeze,so she won't play them anymore.What kind of reasoning is she exhibiting?

Epistemology is most similar to:

Kristopher believes it is a fact that raccoons are a type of bear.When his mother informs him that they aren't,he decides his mom just has a different opinion.This illustrates Kristopher's:

All of the following are typical of Piaget's preoperational stage EXCEPT:

The two major components of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale are:

Which of the following is NOT an objection to the SAT?

Bruno's friends insist that girls don't skateboard.So,Bruno is trying to find out if their idea is true by searching the Internet to find out about girls who participate in skateboarding.His strategy is: