Exam 15: Seciton 3: Adolescence: Cognitive Development

Spreading insults and rumors by means of e-mails, text messages, or Web postings is called _____.

Avery, who is 14 years old, is attending her first swim team practice. She is very sensitive to the facial expressions, body language, communication styles, and other social cues given by her new teammates. Avery's sensitivity to these social cues is aided by her adolescent _____.

Fifteen-year-old Latrina has a 10 P.M. curfew. She asks her parents to extend her curfew to 11 P.M. on weekends. When her parents ask her why, Latrina replies, "I've never been late for my 10 P.M. curfew. You can trust me. Can we at least give it a try?" This is an example of what kind of thinking?

In Inhelder and Piaget's balance experiment, a child who systematically tests the idea that the relationship between weight and distance is reciprocal is probably age _____.

Bottom-up reasoning is also referred to as _____ reasoning.

Taylor spends one hour getting ready for school. She insists on only wearing brand-name clothes. Taylor also wears specific sunglasses to demonstrate that she is a member of the popular crowd, and she participates in verbal bullying of students in the loner crowd. Taylor is most likely to be at what level of the education system?

A longitudinal study (Harden & Tucker-Drob, 2011) that traced the development of sensation-seeking, which can lead to intuitive thinking, from early adolescence to the mid-20s found that increases in sensation-seeking were notable from ages _____.

Piaget called the reasoning that characterizes adolescence _____.

Thinking intensely about themselves and about what others think about them is called _____.

Alisha is doing a history report on the 35th president of the United States for her 10th-grade history class. Where is Alisha most likely going to look for information to complete her report?

Today, the most notable digital divide is based on _____.

What is an example of the sunk cost fallacy?

Which statement is FALSE?

During puberty, young people center on themselves, in part because brain maturation heightens _____.