What is the relationship between the emergence of cliques and crowds and the cognitive abilities of teenagers?
What will be an ideal response?
A good answer would include the following key points:
1 . The emergence of cliques reflects, in part, the increased cognitive abilities of teenagers.
2 . Group labels are abstractions, which require teens to make judgments in the abstract. Due to increasing cognitive abilities, they are able to do so.
3 . The cognitive abilities that allow them to differentiate various aspects of the self also apply to their understanding of cliques and crowds.
4 . During mid-adolescence teenagers are sufficiently sophisticated cognitively to make the subtle distinctions between different cliques and crowds.
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