How does cognitive development proceed during adolescence?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer:
- Adolescence corresponds to Piaget's formal operations period, a stage characterized by abstract reasoning and an experimental approach to problems
- According to the information processing perspective, cognitive advances in adolescence are quantitative and gradual, as many aspects of thinking and memory improve. Growth in metacognition enables the monitoring of thought processes and mental capacities.
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a. the correlation coefficient b. the standard deviation c. the percentile score d. the median
The use of experimentally induced lesions in animals was introduced by a. Paul Broca
b. Pierre Flourens. c. Camillo Golgi. d. Galvani.
Louis is an average North American 5-year-old which means he can perform which activity?
A. write in cursive B. swim without support C. catch a ball D. play the piano
Conformity is greatest when
a. one or two go against the group. b. the task is difficult. c. the task is easy. d. there are more than eight people in a group.