cognitive development in adolescence

Question 1

adolescent egocentrism

Answer 1

-leads young people to focus on themselves to the exclusion of others

• tendency to view life in a self-serving way
• leads adolescents to interpret everyone else’s behaviors as it were a judgement on them
• imaginary audience
• personal fable
• invincibility fable

Question 2

formal operational thinking

Answer 2

• Develop abstract, hypothetical thinking
• Apply formal principles of logic scientific thinking
• Hypothetical-deductive reasoning
• Experience matters
• Formal operational thinking is less likely in new situations

Question 3

digital natives

Answer 3

-a person born or brought up during the age of digital technology and therefore familiar with computers

Question 4

sexual media presentation (cingel )

Answer 4

notes

Question 5

secondary education middle childhood

Answer 5

• Mismatch between students’ egocentrism & changing school structure

• For many students, academic achievement decreases & behavioral problems increase
○ Decrease in school interest, engagement, & motivation
-Increase in bullying & deviant peer influences

Question 6

personal fable

Answer 6

-an adolescent’s belied that his or her thoughts, feelings, and experiences are unique, more wonderful, or more awful, than anyone else’s

Question 7

imaginary audience

Answer 7

• the other people who are watching and taking notes of his or her appearance, ideas, and behavior
• makes teens very self-conscious

Question 8

secondary education high school

Answer 8

• Problems from middle school continue in high school
○ Poor attendance & engagement
○ Depression, suicide, drug use (increase in mental health problems)
• College preparedness
○ Advanced classes
○ High-stakes testing
• Drop-out
-Poor social and economic outcomes