Adolescent Development: Formal Stage, Egocentrism, and Career Choices, Quizzes of Human Development

Download Adolescent Development: Formal Stage, Egocentrism, and Career Choices and more Quizzes Human Development in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Adolescent Intellectual Development DEFINITION 1 ability to think beyond concrete, current situation to what might or could be ability to cognitively manage variety of abstract possibilities ability to see issues in relative, as opposed to absolute, terms TERM 2 Formal Operational Stage DEFINITION 2 The stage at which people develop the ability to think abstractly TERM 3 At what age do people reach formal operation stage and what age do they usually settle in? DEFINITION 3 Starts around age12 and most won't settle until 15 years old TERM 4 What do Formal Operations facilitate? DEFINITION 4 change in everyday behavior ability to reason abstractly more argumentative behavior TERM 5 Adolescent egocentrism DEFINITION 5 state of self-absorption in which the world is viewed from one's own point of view TERM 6 Imaginary audience DEFINITION 6 Fictitious observers who pay as much attention to adolescents' behavior as they do themselves TERM 7 Personal Fables DEFINITION 7 the view held by some adolescents that what happens to them is unique , exceptional, and shared by no one else TERM 8 Moral Development DEFINITION 8 Kohlbeg states, people's responses to moral dilemmas reveal the stage of moral development they have attained and yield information about their general level of cognitive development TERM 9 What are the three levels of Kohlber's Approach to Moral Development? DEFINITION 9 Preconventional morality - following rules based on punishment and reward Conventional morality - decide in their own position of morals postconventional morality - decide on principles that are broad, society driven *this theory has been proven to be problematic TERM 10 True or False: Students do better, both academically and psychologically, in smaller educational settings> DEFINITION 10 True