Describe two ways that adolescents' cognitive development is more advanced than school-age children. Use specific examples to illustrate your response
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Answers vary.
- Adolescents become better able to selectively attend to relevant information. An adolescent may still be able to get her homework done while the TV is on, but a younger child may end up watching it and need to be prompted to get back to work.
- Adolescents also make use of a range of mnemonic devices. They know that they will remember information better for an exam if they form a word from the first letters of the terms they need to remember. For example, they would use the word OCEAN to help them remember the Big 5 aspects of personality. They also know that an outline will help them to write a well-organized paper, whereas a younger child may include a number of facts haphazardly.
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