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Adolescence, 6/e
Laurence Steinberg, Temple University

The Fundamental Changes of Adolescence
Cognitive Transitions

Learning Objectives

1.

Understand the fundamental changes in thinking ability that emerge during adolescence

2.

Understand why adolescents are more capable of creating and managing their own thoughts than are children

3.

Understand why adolescent thinking is so much broader and encompasses so much more than the thinking of a child

4.

Understand what Jean Piaget discovered about the qualitative differences between child and adolescent thinking abilities

5.

Understand how researchers today investigate the cognitive abilities of adolescents from an information-processing perspective

6.

Understand the physical and chemical changes that occur in the brain during adolescence that affect cognitive abilities

7.

Understand how scientists measure cognitive ability, and how IQ changes or does not change over time

8.

Understand what Lev Vygotsky meant when he argued that culture has a profound influence on intelligence

9.

Understand how social cognitive abilities change during adolescence

10.

Understand how cognitive changes affect risk-taking behaviors during adolescence