Exam 14: Cognitive Development in Adolescence

Tong spends at least four or five hours a day practicing his cello. When he's not practicing, he's creating impressionistic murals with colored glass. His parents are sometimes concerned about Tong's intense focus and motivation, but Winner (1996) would argue that Tong

The idea that you cannot understand cognition without examining the context in which the thought takes place is called

Cass was given an assessment test by his school psychologist that measured his progress in achieving the goals of a curriculum. Most likely, Cass was given a(n)

In The Bell Curve, Hernstein and Murray (1994) argue that differences in the average IQ scores of different ethnic groups is due to

Current assessment procedures emphasize a child's ____ for future learning.

Binet and Simon developed the first intelligence test used in a practical setting to examine the intelligence of employees entering the work force.

Name each of Gardner's multiple intelligences, and provide an example of a career that might build on that particular type of intelligence.

Which of the following statements is consistent with a personal fable that includes the feeling of invulnerability?

All of the following are higher-level cognitive abilities that occur during formal operations EXCEPT

Sixteen-year-old Madeleine's father is listening to her talk on the phone to her best friend; he laughs at how little he understands of their conversation. Madeleine says, "I can't believe it, he's such a poser!" Her father wonders, "What's a poser?" Madeleine's father is having difficulty because of

When presented with tasks like the pendulum problem, in contrast to adolescents, children in the ______________ stage are not good at systematically testing all of the factors; they tend to report whatever answer seems to be correct after conducting only a few tests.

The first practical intelligence scale was

Which of the following is a criticism of Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences?

Frank has been asked to complete Piaget's pendulum problem. He comes up with some hypotheses and then systematically tests each variable. First, he holds the length of the string and the amount of weight constant and varies the height at which oscillation is started then he moves on to examining the other variables. Frank is in which stage of Piaget's cognitive developmental theory?

The theory that there is a stage of development beyond Piaget's formal operations, which is reached by older adolescents and adults, is called

The type of intelligence that includes number ability, mechanical skills, and vocabulary is called

Which type of school-to-work transition program combines opportunities to learn with community service expectations?

Roberto is 14 years old, but his performance on an intelligence test reveals a mental age of 18. His IQ is

Ramon is one of those very special children who excel at just about everything. He is the captain of his baseball team, a National Merit finalist, an award-winning poet, and a volunteer with hospice. Ramon would probably be described as

Many studies over many years have replicated Piaget's results on tasks such as object permanence and conservation, under the condition that