Exam 14: Cognitive Development in Adolescence

Before Erin goes to the gym to exercise she spends a lot of time choosing her workout clothing, picturing herself walking into the gym and what people's reactions will be when they see her. Which component of adolescent egocentrism is Erin experiencing?

Which secondary school arrangement helps to lessen the transitional difficulties associated when students enter high school?

Failing __________ is the single most powerful predictor of dropping out of high school that researchers have identified.

What did John Holland's research prove with regard to career choice?

What is character education curriculum?

Which component of adolescent egocentrism is the adolescent who drinks and drives, believing that unlike others, nothing bad will happen to her is acting out?

What is unique about young people who choose a job that stereotypically has been considered the opposite gender's work?

Jocelyn is 16 and hoping to join the Peace Corps after college and work in Bolivia. She has never traveled there, but she has read a lot about the Peace Corps and the work they are doing, and Jocelyn can see herself working there teaching English. Which stage of cognitive development is she in?

The teenager who engages in risky behavior, believing he is immortal is acting out his own__________ .

Which approach to middle school education does the National Middle School Association recommend?

What are the outcomes for teens who work while in high school?

What is the link between dropping out of school and mental illness?

Which personality type is most likely to choose a career which involves organizing and planning as well as abstract thinking such as engineering or science?

Self contained ninth grades are called __________ .

How does usage of formal operational thought currently compare to the frequency of use in prior generations?.

What is the process of finding a solution to a problem by testing single factors called?

Adolescents' maturing executive processes enable them to approach __________ , the kind of learning required in school, more effectively than they did in earlier years.

The most important factors in career choices are __________ , education, and gender.

Give an example using yourself or someone you know and how they have envisioned an imaginary audience.

Spending an unprecedented amount of time in front of the mirror may be a sign that the teenage is painfully picturing that the whole world notices every detail about her or acting as though she has an__________ .