Exam 15: Seciton 2: Adolescence: Cognitive Development

Every nation is experiencing an increasing number of students in _____ schools.

Eight-year-old Eduardo is learning multiplication of real numbers because he is in the _____ operational stage of cognitive development.

Two modes of information processing advance during adolescence. One mode is analytic thought and the other mode is _____.

_____ thought arises from beliefs and assumptions rather than a logical premise.

Sixteen-year-old Clarissa is learning to multiply unreal numbers because she is in the _____ operational stage of cognitive development.

When thinking about possibilities that may or may not reflect reality, an adolescent can use _____ thought.

The statement "If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck" is an example of _____.

Students who leave high school without graduating tend to be _____ boys from minority ethnic groups.

For many students, academic achievement _____ and behavioral problems increase during middle school.

In _____ reasoning, one begins with a general premise and draws logical, specific conclusions from it.

Adolescent victims of cyberbullying are particularly likely to suffer from _____.

Many high school graduates enter college, but even 10 years after the usual age for high school graduation, only about _____ percent of U.S. young adults have earned a bachelor's degree.

A common fallacy in which people ignore information about the frequency of a phenomenon is referred to as _____ neglect.

Recognition for academic excellence is especially elusive in _____, because teachers at this level tend to mark more harshly than those at other levels.

Piaget referred to the stage of cognitive development that involves the ability to think logically about abstract ideas as _____ thought.

Many U.S. states require high school students to pass high-stakes _____ in order to graduate.

Drake, an adolescent, drank six energy drinks in 3 minutes. Even though he started to experience heart palpitations, he believed that he would not suffer any ill effects. His certainty resulted from his _____.

Analysis of national educational practices and scores on the PISA finds that teachers and administrators who feel _____ correlate with high achievement among students.

Young adolescents think intensely about themselves and what others think about them. David Elkind described this as adolescent _____.

The _____ is an international test taken by 15-year-olds; it is designed to measure the problem solving and practical cognition used in daily life.