Exam 15: Cognitive Development in Adolescence

What advice would you give to an adolescent in the process of choosing a career?

Critics of Piaget's theory contend that __________.

According to John Holland, someone associated with the __________ personality type has traits that are related to verbal skills and interpersonal relations. These people are good at working with people and consequently make good salespersons, teachers, and counselors.

What is one downside to working a job during high school?

Describe personal fables and invincibility fables.

Describe the role of metacognition in the emergence of adolescent egocentrism and the presence of an imaginary audience.

Researcher John Holland was interested in studying individuals and the careers they selected. According to his six personality types, __________ individuals prefer highly structured tasks.

Identify and describe the series of stages of moral development according to Gilligan.

According to Gilligan, the stage of morality in which females first concentrate on what is practical and best for them, gradually making a transition from selfishness to responsibility, and in which they think about what would be best for others is called __________.

Some adolescents construct __________, in which they feel invulnerable to the risks that threaten others.

Recent statistics reveal that nearly __________ percent of high school students in the United States do not graduate.

Fifteen-year-old Mica has decided to become an airplane pilot-despite the fact that he has severe asthma that will not allow him to breathe well in thin air at high altitudes. According to Ginzberg, Mica is in the __________ period of choosing his career.

A person who is faced with stealing something that will save someone else's life, and who decides either against stealing due to guilt or in favor of stealing because he or she would be unable to face others if he or she did nothing, is in Kohlberg's __________ stage of morality.

Identify and describe the series of stages of moral development according to Kohlberg.

Which is an accurate statement about the effect of video games on cognitive ability?

During this period of adolescence, you may have noticed your child questioning your authority and becoming argumentative when asked to do something he/she does not think is fair. Why do you think this is happening? What does Piaget have to say about this emerging questioning of authority? What are some strategies you have used to deal with this issue?

Twenty-year-old Nora can't remember a time when she didn't have a paintbrush in her hand. Painting is her favorite pastime, and it is also her major in college; she plans to find a career in painting. Researcher John Holland would say that Nora's personality type is __________.

According to Lawrence Kohlberg, people's responses to moral dilemma scenarios reveal the stage of __________ development they have attained and yield information about their general level of __________ development.

Eighteen-year-old Aaron wants to become a doctor, so the summer between his senior year of high school and his first year at college, he decides to volunteer at a local hospital to gain some experience in working in a hospital setting. Eli Ginzberg would say that Aaron is in the __________period of choosing his career.

Provide an overview of the information-processing perspective of cognitive development in relation to advances in adolescents' cognitive abilities.