Exam 15: Cognitive Development in Adolescence

Research has shown that teens put more effort into cognitive processing than adults do.

Joe's grandmother lives with his family.Both of his parents work,and on days she is sick,Joe has to stay home from school to care for her.This is an example of the ____________.

How much effort you put into studying for this test is an example of ___________.

When making a risky decision,most teens tend to have ______________.

Which students have the highest graduation rates?

What are the three traits of parenting that are critical to their teen students' achievement?

Biology is destiny.

Vygotsky regarded _____________ as central to cognitive development.

The language,terms,and jargon of a particular discipline,like child development,is called ____________.

When Susan was in elementary school,she could recite the words to the Pledge of Allegiance but did not understand the meaning.Now as an adolescent she can explain liberty and justice and freedom.Susan ____________ according to Piaget.

"Bottom-up" reasoning is also known as ____________.

Piaget said that all adolescents will reach formal thought by age 18.

In most states,adolescents must be at least ______years old to work most jobs.

If you know facts,opinions,and theory related to adolescent development,you are operating at the _____________according to Kuhn.

Susie is skimming the assigned chapter looking for contextual cues; what reading strategy is she using?

John is on his high school debate team.To do well,he has to understand his own position and know his opponent's position well enough to expose the weaknesses in it.John has _____________.

Suppose you are shown four cards and told that each card has a letter on one side and a number on the other.You can see only one side of each card.Card one has an E on it; card two has a K on it,card three has a 4 on it,and card four has a 7 on it.You must determine whether the following hypothesis is true or false: If there is a vowel on one side,then there is an even number on the other side.What is the minimum number of cards you must examine to test this hypothesis?

When Bill gets a new girl's phone number,he can memorize it immediately,but Frank has to write it down.Bill's ___________ seems to be working better than Frank's.

Jack's Trivia Master Team is awaiting its turn to answer the next question,but Jack knows the answer to the other team's question and he wants to say it out loud so badly he is squirming in his chair.So as to not give the answer away,Jack needs ______________.

If a teen is faced with a logical necessity problem where the basic premise is false,then he or she will ____________.