Exam 18: Seciton 4: Emerging Adulthood: Cognitive Development

Young adults who believe that intelligence is plastic, not inborn, can overcome stereotype threat.

The older an individual is, the greater the likelihood that she will demonstrate delay discounting.

Being exposed to a diverse array of people in college likely contributes to deeper thought and intellectual challenge.

About two-thirds of U.S. students take out loans to help pay for college.

Many American children and adults harbor some implicit bias against African Americans, detectable in their slower reaction time when mentally processing photos of African Americans as compared with photos of European Americans.

As students progress through college they usually are more able to see multiple perspectives.

Dialectical thinking involves the constant integration of beliefs and experiences with all the contradictions and inconsistencies of daily life.

The stage approach to cognitive development analyzes intelligence via IQ tests and other measures.

According to a dialectical thinker, romance becomes troubled because relationship partners have changed without adapting to each other.

One of the practical skills of postformal thinking is the ability to combine subjective and objective thought.

Most U.S. college students attend publicly sponsored institutions.

Emerging adults consider most of life's answers to be provisional, not necessarily permanent.

Postformal thought is more practical as well as more creative and imaginative than earlier stages of thinking.

Students who are about to graduate from college are likely to believe that there are clear and absolute truths to discover.

One reason other nations have greater massification than the United States is that in these nations college tuition is lower.

Gilligan believes that decisions about reproduction advance moral thinking, especially for women.

Educators who agree with Vygotsky are likely to take a prescriptive, staged, practical approach to education.

Due to their skepticism, college graduates tend to think more narrowly and rigidly than those who did not attend college.

Every year of college appears to improve cognitive abilities.

According to current research, college students today are more concerned with getting a well-rounded education than in being able to find a good-paying job upon graduation.