Learning Objectives

Understand the fundamental changes in thinking ability that emerge during adolescence

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Understand how social cognitive abilities change during adolescence

Understand how cognitive changes affect risk-taking behaviors during adolescence

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