Exam 58: Cognitive Development

Adolescent thinking is ________, which means that adolescents use not only concrete data, but also statements or propositions that contain the concrete data.

According to Piaget, when an adolescent demonstrates an ability to reason realistically about the future and consider possibilities that they actually doubt, they are engaging in __________.

Adolescents attack a problem by gathering as much information as possible and then making all possible combinations of the variables that they can.

According to Piaget, during which period do the beginnings of logical, abstract thinking appear, commencing around age 11 or 12?

Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding the dramatic changes in the brain during adolescence?

Flavell, Miller, and Miller (1993) identified several features of adolescent thought that include all of the following EXCEPT __________.

Clear thinking, advanced problem solving, and making good decisions depends entirely on neurological changes and the amount of practice will not make a difference.

According to Flavell, Miller, and Miller, adolescence brings with it advances in metacognition, which is to say they begin to think about thinking.

The great achievement of the formal operational period is a release from the ________.

Healthcare providers dealing with teenagers should do all of the following EXCEPT _________.

The ability to separate the real from the possible distinguishes the formal operational thinker from the concrete operational thinker.