Exam 3: Cognitive Development

Dualistic thinkers believe knowledge and theories are either right or wrong.

Incoming sensory information is filtered through the short-term memory.

Kobe, an 18-year-old, is a freshman in college taking a general psychology class. At the moment, they are learning about operant conditioning. Kobe believes that everything can be boiled down to a reward or punishment situation as outlined in operant conditioning. He doesn't see any gray area where someone would complete a task without some sort of positive reward. Kobe illustrates ______.

Isabella and her boyfriend just broke up. Her friends try and tell her that they understand that she is upset. Isabella responds to her friends that none of them could possibly understand the depth of her feelings for her boyfriend and just how devastating this break up is in her life. Isabella is illustrating ______.

What is the relationship between stress and working memory?

Many hold the belief that IQ tests only measure a specific set of mental abilities while ignoring others.

Individuals will use formal-operational reasoning more likely with new information.

Carter, a 13-year-old boy, has been playing competitive soccer for a few years. He is even on a travel team in the off season. He enjoys the physicality of the game and the competition. Lately, Carter has been more aggressive. He has even gotten a few red cards for charging too aggressively during his games. This may be due to the peak of which brain structure?

The integration of abstract reasoning with practical considerations is known as ______.

Which theorist posed that adolescents follow a developmental path from adolescent egocentrism to mature perspective taking?

In adolescence, feeling as if all eyes are on you is known as ______.

How are the personal fable and imaginary audience related to late adolescence?

Language is mostly specialized in the right hemisphere of the brain which is known as lateralization.

Which behavior is an example of reflective judgment?

New neurons are born in the hippocampus and will travel along the ______ to the location of the brain where they will function.

Sarah is aware of all the different smells in the arboretum. She can close her eyes and smell the lavender which is different from the roses. By doing this, she can move this information from her sensory memory into her short term and eventually her long term so that she will always remember what lavender smells like. Sarah's awareness of the different smells is the process of ______.

Provide an example of a 16-year-old using metacognition in everyday life.

In childhood and adolescence, ______ underlies improvements in processing speed.

Faith used to believe that everyone felt the same way as she did about dogs. She thought that everyone loved them. As Faith has entered into early adolescence, she has realized that her aunt does not like dogs because one bit her when she was young. Faith can understand her aunt's perspective about dogs now. Faith is illustrating ______.

Joseph, a 16-year-old boy, is doing a paper on the death penalty. He has to really think about what justice means. Does the death penalty truly serve justice as a punishment? This and other questions along these lines keep presenting themselves in his mind. Joseph is using ______.