Cognitive Development in Adolescence

According to Piaget, adolescents are in which stage of cognitive development?

• Concrete Operational

• Formal Operational

• Preoperational

• Sensorimotor

One major change in adolescents' thinking is that they can do which of the following?

• think in concrete terms.

• see things only in absolute terms.

• see things only in terms of black-and-white solutions.

• move beyond the concrete, current situation to what might or could be.

The formal operational period is the stage at which people develop the ability to think _______?

• abstractly

• in concrete terms

• in semi-concrete terms

• without speaking

Starting with a general theory about what produces a particular outcome and then deducing explanations for specific situations in which they see that particular outcome?

• unlikely to work in most situations

• used only by children in the concrete operational stage

• hypothetico-deductive reasoning

• used only by adults

All men are mortal.

Socrates is a man.

Therefore, Socrates is mortal.

This is an example of?

• propositional thought

• bad poetry

• an example of a false conclusion

• a type of thought that comes from Vygotsky's theory of cognitive development

Which of the following is not one of the consequences of adolescents' increased cognitive skills and ability to reason abstractly?

• leads to changes in everyday behavior

• they become more argumentative

• they become acutely sensitive to parents' and teachers' shortcomings

• they lose interest in seeking to understand the values and justifications they encounter in their lives

Which perspective in cognitive development focuses on adolescents' abilities to take in, use, and store information?

• Sociocultural Approach

• Information Processing Approach

• Piagetian Approach

• Behavioristic Approach

General intelligence in adolescents?

• increases consistently

• remains stable

• shows a marked decline

• is unstable

True or False: During adolescence, there are dramatic improvements in specific mental abilities that underlie intelligence.

• True

• False

Which of the following is NOT a true statement about the memory capacity and perceptual abilities in adolescents?

• memory capacity grows

• grow increasingly sophisticated in their ability to grasp abstract concepts

• no changes are detected

• their store of knowledge increases