Exam 15: Seciton 4: Adolescence: Cognitive Development

Intuitive thought is cognitively easier than analytic thought.

Today's adults are considered to be "digital natives."

Adolescents place a very high value on social warmth and friendships.

Mastery motivation among adolescents can be enhanced by encouraging a belief in the incremental approach to intelligence.

All high school students who take Advanced Placement classes will be well prepared for college.

As adolescents develop their capacity for hypothetical thinking, they become more capable of deductive reasoning.

Because the limbic system is activated by puberty but the prefrontal cortex matures more gradually over time, adolescents might be swayed by their intuition instead of by logic.

Antisocial students (e.g., aggressive, drug-using) tend to be popular in middle school.

Acute self-consciousness about physical appearance is much more prevalent between the ages of 16 and 20 than earlier or later.

Usually academic achievement increases and behavioral problems decrease during middle school.

Parents and teachers are often unaware of cyberbullying among adolescents.

The invincibility fable reflects adolescent egocentrism.

The belief in an imaginary audience makes adolescents self-conscious.

The United States has the best high school graduation rates of all developed nations.

Secondary education traditionally consists of grades 7 through 12.

High school students can think abstractly, analytically, hypothetically, and logically as well as emotionally and intuitively.

Egocentrism leads adolescents to interpret everyone else's behavior as if it were a judgment on them.

Video games with violent content have not been associated with aggression in adolescents.

Analytic thought, compared to intuitive thought, is generally preferred in everyday life.

Some adolescents do not feel invincible; instead, they have exaggerated perceptions of risks.