Adolescent Egocentrism and Counterfactual Thinking
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Adolescent Egocentrism and Counterfactual Thinking

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What is the term used to describe the belief that your experiences are unique during adolescence?

  • Metacognition
  • Personal fable (correct)
  • Adolescent egocentrism
  • Imaginary audience

    • According to the Piagetian view, at what stage of cognitive development do adolescents develop formal operational thinking?

  • Concrete operations
  • Preoperational period
  • Sensori motor period
  • Formal operations (correct)

    • What is a characteristic of adolescent egocentrism as described in the text?

  • Selective and divided attention
  • Thinking about possibilities and abstract concepts
  • Extreme self-absorption (correct)
  • Low self-awareness

    • Which aspect of cognitive development in adolescents focuses on selective and divided attention, as well as impulse control?

    <p>Attention</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the information-processing view of adolescent thinking emphasize for cognitive development?

    <p>Growth of specific thinking components</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which term is used in the text to describe thinking not only about how things actually are but also about what might have been?

    <p>Counterfactual thinking</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What imaging technique is used to produce images of the brain while a subject is performing a mental task?

    <p>fMRI</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is synaptic pruning?

    <p>The deletion of unnecessary synapses</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which brain structure is significantly pruned during adolescence?

    <p>Prefrontal cortex</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of myelination in the brain?

    <p>Creates fatty substances surrounding neuron axons</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which type of plasticity involves the malleability of the brain during developmental periods?

    <p>Developmental plasticity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What occurs as a result of limbic system changes happening earlier than prefrontal cortex changes?

    <p>Higher emotional responsiveness</p> Signup and view all the answers

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