Question 1

According to David Elkind,personal fable and imaginary audience are parts of adolescent:

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Question 2

Fifteen-year-old Juanita wants to skip school today because she is having a bad hair day and is convinced that everybody will notice and think badly of her.Which aspect of adolescent egocentrism is Juanita experiencing?

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Question 3

The Carnegie Corporation evaluated U.S.middle schools and recommended that:

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Question 4

The lowest school dropout rate in the United States occurred for:

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Question 5

_____ involves being aware that options and alternatives are available and adapting to the situation.

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Question 6

George wants to ensure that his sons become competent decision makers.Which of the following is a strategy you would suggest for improving their decision making?

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Question 7

"I know I can handle the car at high speeds much better than others can," says 18-year-old Jake.This reflects the tendency of adolescents to engage in:

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Question 8

In a study,almost 50 percent of high school dropouts cited _____ reasons for leaving school.

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Question 9

If _____ are not developed during childhood,critical thinking skills are unlikely to mature in adolescence.

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Question 10

Leila,a 14-year-old girl,feels that nobody understands her,especially her parents and teachers.Leila's feelings reflect the _____ aspect of an adolescent's egocentrism.

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Question 11

In the last half of the twentieth century and the first several years of the twenty-first century,U.S.high school dropout rates:

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Question 12

The _____ is adolescent's' beliefs that others are as interested in them as they themselves are,as well as attention-getting behavior-attempts to be noticed,visible,and "on stage."

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Question 13

An aspect of _____ that involves having the confidence in one's ability to adapt one's thinking to a particular situation is important in being cognitively flexible.

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Question 14

Adolescent _____ is the heightened self-consciousness of adolescents.

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Question 15

When students make the transition to middle or junior high school,they experience the _____ phenomenon,moving from being the oldest,biggest,and most powerful students in the elementary school to being the youngest,smallest,and least powerful students in the middle or junior high school.

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Question 16

The _____ is the part of adolescent egocentrism involving a sense of uniqueness and invincibility.

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Question 17

In contrast to Piaget's views,the development of formal operational thinking:

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Question 18

In the formal operational stage,adolescents begin to think more as a scientist thinks,devising plans to solve problems and systematically testing solutions.This type of problem solving requires _____.

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Question 19

Who is the founder of the present field of cognitive development?

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Question 20

Which of the following is a concern related to U.S.high school education?

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Quiz 11: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence