Deck 14: Cognitive Development in Adolescence

Question 1

Which key new operation is available in the formal operations stage, according to Piaget?

A)critical analysis
B)formal reasoning
C)formal induction
D)formal deduction

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Children in the concrete operational stage can solve ___________ transitive interference problems.

A)No
B)All
C)Abstract
D)Concrete

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which is NOT true of formal operational thought?

A)It is Piaget's final cognitive stage.
B)It is the stage in which transitive inferences can begin to be made.
C)It is the stage where deductive logic is acquired.
D)It is the stage in which the ability to consider two or more factors at a time is acquired.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which book helped to establish the view that adolescence was a structurally distinct developmental period?

A)Manual of Child Psychology
B)Handbook on Formal Operational Thinking
C)The Growth of Logical Thinking from Childhood to Adolescence
D)Your Child and You

Question 5

Shaklee's study(1988) found that when given covariant problems …

A)college-age students were able to naturally and spontaneously use the conditional probablility rule
B)college-age students were more developmentally ready to receive training in conditional probability
C)adolescents performed significantly more poorly than college-age students before training
D)adolescents showed significant improvement after training

Question 6

Baldwin referred to the final cognitive stage as …

A)hyper-logical
B)operational
C)logical
D)post-logical

Question 7

Piaget makes two claims about thinking in the period after concrete operations. One of these claims is that formal operational thinking is the final stage of development. What is the other claim?

A)Developmental changes continue through early adolescence.
B)Developmental changes do not continue through early adolescence.
C)Formal operational thinking is not qualitatively different from concrete operational thinking, but it is quantitatively different.
D)The transition to formal operational thinking begins at around 13 years.

Question 8

Which of the following was NOT a study reported by Piaget and Inhelder(1955)?

A)The mental rotation task
B)The balance beam task
C)The pendulum task
D)The communicating vessels task

Question 9

Piaget(and later Siegel) found that …

A)The more complex relations in formal operational thinking are mastered at 13 years.
B)Not everybody manages to master the more complex relations that form part of formal operational thinking.
C)The more complex relations in formal operational thinking are mastered at 11 years.
D)The balance beam task is not a good test of formal operations.

Question 10

Which is NOT a reason as to why younger children retain less information?

A)They take longer to process information and so more of it is decayed.
B)They are not able to organise memories due to a less developed PFC.
C)They have less efficient attention strategies.
D)They have less efficient rehearsal strategies.

Question 11

The Go/No-Go task measures …

A)inhibition
B)planning
C)task switching
D)generating new solutions

Question 12

A study by Shaklee(1988) served to demonstrate that …

A)not all adults attain the formal operations stage
B)the formal operations stage is attained universally
C)education can play a role in developing formal operational thought
D)education has little role to play in formal operational thought

Question 13

Filling in the last word in a sentence based on context and then remembering all of the last words is a classic test for measuring …

A)working memory
B)short-term memory
C)attention
D)executive functions

Question 14

Children are able to coordinate information for analyses best in the …

A)concrete operational stage
B)preoperational stage
C)formal operational stage
D)sensorimotor stage

Question 15

In Helwig's scenarios(1995), younger adolescents tended to …

A)affirm equality of freedom of speech
B)affirm freedoms of speech and religion more often
C)not confirm civil liberties
D)affirm freedoms of speech and religion less often

Question 16

According to Levin et al.(1991), which executive skills reached adult levels by age 12?

A)Inhibition and task switching
B)Task switching and planning
C)Planning and generating new solutions
D)Inhibition and planning

Question 17

Which is NOT considered a higher order executive skill which normally needs more time to mature and develop?

A)planning
B)retrieving and organising information
C)memory strategy
D)attentional control

Question 18

In covariation, the sum of the diagnols strategy involves …

A)looking at the frequency in Cell A and determining if it is stronger than the other cells
B)comparing the frequencies of Cells A and B
C)comparing the number of events comfirming a positive relationship with the number disconfirming the relationship
D)comparing the frequencies of Cells C and D

Question 19

Cognitive development …

A)is linked to maturation that is independent of puberty
B)is linked to puberty
C)occurs sporadically
D)is completed at the same time pubertal changes are completed

Question 20

Piaget proposed a totally internally coherent logical structure known as the INRC group. What does INRC stand for?

A)Invariant-Number-Reversible-Cooperative
B)Incorporated-Numerosity-Relative-Correlative
C)Identity-Negation-Reciprocity-Correlative
D)Individual-Numerosity-Recognition-Coordination