Transcript 15 AdolescenceCognitive

15-Adolescence-Cognitive
11 – 18 years
Jr. High & High school - Teenage years
Jennifer has a small pimple, and thinks
everyone in school will notice it.
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This is an example of?
A. Adolescent egocentrism
B. The personal fable
C. School phobia
D. Deductive reasoning
Jennifer has a small pimple, and thinks
everyone in school will notice it.
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This is an example of?
A. Adolescent egocentrism
B. The personal fable
C. School phobia
D. Deductive reasoning
_________ reflects one’s ability to work
her or his way from a general statement
or concept to specific details.
A. Abstract thinking
B. Inductive reasoning
C. Deductive reasoning
D. Metacognition
_________ reflects one’s ability to work
her or his way from a general statement
or concept to specific details.
A. Abstract thinking
B. Inductive reasoning
C. Deductive reasoning
D. Metacognition
Twee is in high school and is very concerned with
wearing the right clothes, having the right phone,
etc. to fit into her peer group. She feels that if she
doesn’t have the right kind of shoes, everyone will
notice and laugh at her. Twee is responding to:
A. the imaginary
audience.
B. the personal fable.
C. the invincibility
fable.
Twee is in high school and is very concerned with
wearing the right clothes, having the right phone,
etc. to fit into her peer group. She feels that if she
doesn’t have the right kind of shoes, everyone will
notice and laugh at her. Twee is responding to:
A. the imaginary
audience.
B. the personal fable.
C. the invincibility
fable.
When Jim speeds down the freeway under the
influence of alcohol, he is demonstrating which
aspect of adolescent egocentrism?
A. invincibility fable
B. personal fable
C. imaginary audience
D. stupidity fable
When Jim speeds down the freeway under the
influence of alcohol, he is demonstrating which
aspect of adolescent egocentrism?
A. invincibility fable
B. personal fable
C. imaginary audience
D. stupidity fable
Mario reads about a study in which tumors
were shrunk in rats. From that study, he
begins to consider how the same process could
be used to treat different sorts of tumors in
adults. This is an example of:
A. the imaginary audience.
B. inductive reasoning.
C. adolescent arrogance.
D. personal fable.
Mario reads about a study in which tumors
were shrunk in rats. From that study, he
begins to consider how the same process could
be used to treat different sorts of tumors in
adults. This is an example of:
A. the imaginary audience.
B. inductive reasoning.
C. adolescent arrogance.
D. personal fable.
Jera’s friends want her to skip school to go to
the beach. She thinks about the benefits and
risks of her options, and she decides not to
skip classes. Jera has demonstrated:
A. analytical thought.
B. intuitive thought.
C. deductive thought.
D. infallible thought.
Jera’s friends want her to skip school to go to
the beach. She thinks about the benefits and
risks of her options, and she decides not to
skip classes. Jera has demonstrated:
A. analytical thought.
B. intuitive thought.
C. deductive thought.
D. infallible thought.
• Lin’s boyfriend broke up with her. She is
devastated, and thinks her feelings are unique;
no one else could possible understand.
• She is experiencing:
– A. Personal fable
– B. Egocentrism
– C. Imaginary audience
– D. Egocentrism
• Lin’s boyfriend broke up with her. She is
devastated, and thinks her feelings are unique;
no one else could possible understand.
• She is experiencing:
– A. Personal fable
– B. Egocentrism
– C. Imaginary audience
– D. Egocentrism
• Jim always buys lottery tickets, and thinks if he
does that long enough, he may win, and has
dreams of what to do with his winnings.
• (Odds of winning is 1 in 7,000,000)
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Jim is guilty of
A. Base rate neglect
B. Sunk cost fallacy
C. Deductive reasoning
D. None of the above
• Jim always buys lottery tickets, and thinks if he
does that long enough, he may win, and has
dreams of what to do with his winnings.
• (Odds of winning is 1 in 7,000,000)
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Jim is guilty of
A. Base rate neglect
B. Sunk cost fallacy
C. Deductive reasoning
D. None of the above
• Martha’s friends are spreading rumors and
insults about her via text messages, emails,
and Facebook pages. They are engaging in:
• A. Spamming
• B. Phishing
• C. Cyberbullying
• D. Hacking
• Martha’s friends are spreading rumors and
insults about her via text messages, emails,
and Facebook pages. They are engaging in:
• A. Spamming
• B. Phishing
• C. Cyberbullying
• D. Hacking
• Mohammad has been majoring in accounting
for three years, and has found he thinks it is
dull and boring. However, he reasons, “I have
put so much time into this I should just keep
going, even though I dislike it.”
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He is guilty of
A. Base rate neglect
B. Sunk cost fallacy
C. Magical thinking
D. None of the above
• Mohammad has been majoring in accounting
for three years, and has found he thinks it is
dull and boring. However, he reasons, “I have
put so much time into this I should just keep
going, even though I dislike it.”
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He is guilty of
A. Base rate neglect
B. Sunk cost fallacy
C. Magical thinking
D. None of the above
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What do you need help with?
What topics do you need help with?
• A. Egocentrism
– Personal fable
– Imaginary audience
– Invincibility fable
• B. Hypothetical thought
• C. Intuitive thought
• D. Thinking fallacies
– Base rate neglect fallacy
– Sunk cost fallacy
• E. I understand
What topics do you need help with?
• A. Cyberbullying
• B. Negative specialties
• C. Types of reasoning
– Inductive
– Deductive
• D. I understand
• Are there any issues you had with your parents,
your school work, your friends, or your romantic
involvements in the last year of high school that
continued to be issues for you in college?
• Reflect on your own personality, interests and
cognitive abilities at the time you graduated high
school. How did these personality characteristics
and abilities manifest themselves in subsequent
years?
• How have they changed since your high school
days, if at all?
How does adolescent egocentrism differ
from early childhood egocentrism? What
effect does this have on the teenager?