16 Questions
During adolescence, there is a decrease in:
Egocentric thoughts
What enables the control and coordination of thoughts and behavior in adolescents?
Executive functions
What cognitive development occurs during adolescence that allows individuals to think and reason in a wider perspective?
Decrease in egocentric thoughts
What process involves the acquisition of spatial awareness and formulation of abstract or general ideas during adolescence?
Acquisition of new skills
At what ages do adolescents experience three peaks of maturation in brain development?
12, 15, and 18.5
What is happening in the brains of adolescents from ages 13 to about age 25?
Pruning and strengthening process involving numbers, order, and cause-effect
What is the main developmental change that propels adolescents from the world of sensible and concrete thoughts to the world of possible and universal ideas?
Acquisition of new cognitive skills due to brain's increasing weight
What marks the movement from an ability to think and reason from concrete visible events to an ability to think hypothetically and entertain what-if possibilities about the world?
Formal operational thinking
What characterizes the cognitive structures of Piaget's formal operational stage?
Four rules for manipulating the content of thought
Which type of thinking involves making assertions outside visual evidence, stating what may be possible in things not seen by the eyes?
Propositional thinking
What involves subjectively making an opinion on facts, involving one's own bias, prejudice, or distortion of facts?
Relativistic thinking
Which area of brain development covers the brain systems whose executive functions relate to attention, verbal fluency, language, and planning?
Temporal and parietal areas
What is the process involved in the second brain development that covers the brain systems related to attention, verbal fluency, language, and planning?
Myelination
What age marks the peak in brain maturation which coincides with operational thinking processes for logical reasoning?
Age 18.5
What does Piaget's formal operational stage mark a movement from and to?
From concrete visible events to hypothetical thinking; to entertain what-if possibilities about the world; develop abstract thinking and solve problems systematically by using abstract concepts.
What does Piaget's theory of Formal Operational Thinking demonstrate about adolescents' cognitive capacity?
It allows them to go beyond sensible and concrete thoughts to dwell on what is abstract, hypothetical, and possible.
Learn about the rapid cognitive development in adolescence, including the decrease in egocentric thoughts and the transition to abstract thinking. Explore the development of executive functions and their role in controlling and coordinating thoughts and behavior.
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