Cognitive Development In Adol.

Question 0

What are the executive functions

Answer 0

Attention allocation
Working memory
Response inhibition
Planning and organization
Regulator of emotion

Question 1

Executive functions

Answer 1

Set of mental functions working to achieve goals through organization and regulation

Question 2

Executive functioning a role in health outcomes

Answer 2

Academic performance
Psychological / mental health
Interpersonal relationships
Obesity
Risk taking behavior
Substance use

Question 3

Amygdala

Answer 3

Emotional part of brain to process information
Adol and emerging adults are still developing the capacity to process interpret and regulate emotions
Not as good at detailed processing

Question 4

Paigets formal operations

Answer 4

Ability to think scientifically and apply to concepts
Hypothetical deductive reasoning
Abstract thinking

Question 5

Hypothetical deductive reasoning

Answer 5

Ability to arrive and defend an answer

Question 6

Abstract thinking (vs. Concrete)

Answer 6

The ability to think in abstract terms

Question 7

Perspective taking

Answer 7

The ability to understand the thoughts and feelings of others

Question 8

Adol. Egocentrism

Answer 8

Having difficulty distinguishing your own thinking about yourself from the thoughts of others

Question 9

Imaginary audience and person fable

Answer 9

IA: adol. Limited capacity to distinguish beaten their thinking about themselves and their thinking about the thoughts of others

PF: the belief that an imaginary audience that is highly conscious of how you look and act leads to the belief that there must be something special or unique about you

Question 10

Metacognition

Answer 10

Adol are aware of their thinking processes

The capacity for thinking about thinking enables adol to learn and solve problems more efficiently