Changes in Cognitive and Brain Function Quiz Flashcards
According to research on behavioral decision theory, adolescents often decide to engage in behavior that seems risky to adults because adolescents
A. cannot consider as many consequences for their actions as adults can.
B. have thinking processes that are still predominantly preoperational.
C. have different values and priorities than adults.
D. wish to assert their independence from adults in every possible way.
have different values and priorities than adults.
Teenagers may become extremely self-conscious because they believe that people are talking about them. Which characteristic are they exhibiting?
A. an imaginary audience
B. a personal fable
C. propositional logic
D. metacognition
An imaginary audience
Adolescents’ persistent arguments over rules are most likely a result of
A. an increase in relativism.
B. a decrease in incrementalism.
C. hormonal changes.
D. a hereditary resistance to authority.
an increase in relativism
Reward seeking and sensation seeking
A. are equally high during childhood and adolescence.
B. are lower during adolescence than childhood.
C. are caused by biological forces during adolescence and environmental forces in childhood.
D. are higher during adolescence than they were in childhood.
are higher during adolescence than they were in childhood
In childhood, moral guidelines are seen as
A. absolutes.
B. subjective.
C. based on the values of one group.
D. based on ideas that can be challenged.
absolutes
Why do Steinberg and other experts consider adolescence to be an age of opportunity?
A. The human brain is more easily shaped during adolescence than at other life stages.
B. During adolescence, the brain begins an explosive period of synaptic growth.
C. In the teen years, the brain becomes less efficient but more imaginative thanks to synaptic pruning.
D. People in late adolescence are able to learn more because their brains become noticeably larger.
The human brain is more easily shaped during adolescence than at other life stages
Javier spends a great deal of time talking about relationships, politics, philosophy, religion, and morality with his friends, demonstrating his ability to think
A. abstractly.
B. preoperationally.
C. concretely.
D. deductively.
abstractly
Which of these is an aspect of metacognition?
A. conserving mental resources
B. thinking about feelings
C. appraising one’s own comprehension
D. being free of adolescent egocentrism
appraising one’s own comprehension
Which of the following is one of the results of improvements in social cognition?
A. Adolescents become better able to interpret the feelings of others.
B. Adolescents become less able to recognize that others may view situations differently.
C. Adolescents are less capable of formulating arguments.
D. Adolescents are less likely to challenge their parents’ and teachers’ authority.
Adolescents become better able to interpret the feelings of others.
Which of the following brain systems is responsible for processing emotions, social information, and rewards?
A. functional connectivity system
B. response inhibition system
C. limbic system
D. prefrontal cortex system
limbic system
