Piaget
Information Processing Approach
Practical Cognition
Social Cognition
Brain Development
100
Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development is organized into ______?
Stages
100
What is the theory based on the idea that humans process the information they receive rather than just responding to stimuli?
Information Processing Approach
100
Name one of the psychosocial factors that can affect the decision making of adolescents.
Desire to be accepted, emotion of the moment, and reasoning errors
100
During what age range do children become capable for mutual perspective taking?
Around the age of 10 to 12
100
Between the ages of 12 and 20 the brain loses what percentage of grey matter to synaptic pruning?
7%-10%
200
New information altered to fit an existing scheme is ______?
Assimilation
200
What is it called when you break down the thinking process into various components?
Componential Approach
200
True/False: Adolescents are more likely to make reasoning errors in decision making than adults.
True
200
What are the two aspects of social cognition?
Perspective taking and adolescent egocentrism
200
What is the last structure of the brain to stop growing?
The cerebellum
300
The Preoperational Stage occurs during what age range?
2-7
300
Adolescents tend to be better than pre-adolescent children at tasks that require selective attention and emerging adults are generally better than adolescents. T/F?
True
300
Which age group of adolescents is more likely to be influenced by psychosocial immaturity: 16 years old and up or 15 years old and younger?
15 years old and younger
300
Which part of the brain is most active when performing theory of mind tasks?
Frontal Cortex
300
Growing research on this process is showing implications to the development of mental disorders such as schizophrenia, anxiety, and depression.
Unusually rapid synaptic pruning
400
Abstract thinking and complex thinking are examples of which stage in Piaget’s Theory?
Formal Operations Stage
400
Selective attention is is especially a problem for children and adolescents with?
Learning disabilities
400
In the medical procedures study, adolescents in which grade level were more likely to take a risk: 10th or 12th grade?
10th graders
400
What is it called when you think there is something absolutely unique and special about yourself?
The Personal Fable
400
What is the name of the blanket of fat wrapped around the main part of the neuron?
Myelin Sheath
500
What is one of the limitations of Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development?
Individual differences, Cultural differences
500
What are the three major components of memory?
Long-term memory, Short-term memory, and Working- memory
500
Name one of the reasons adolescents have an increased potential for critical thinking?
Wider range of knowledge in long-term memory, the increased ability to consider different knowledge simultaneously, more strategies for gaining and applying knowledge are available
500
Who proposed the theory about how perspective taking develops through series of stages from early stages through adolescence?
Robert Selman
500
At what age does white matter begin to rapidly decline?
40
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