Exam 3: Adolescent Cognitive Development

Question 1

What are the characteristics of piaget’s formal operational stage?

Answer 1

• Perberty onward
• many adults don’t reach this stage
• they can identify multiple solutions
  -think about more social issues
• use hypothetical and deductive reasoning

Question 2

What is a personal fable?

Answer 2

The belief they are special, their experience is unique, and they aren’t subject to rules

Question 3

What is imaginary audience?

Answer 3

Everyone is watching them

Question 4

What are the different levels of moral reasoning?

Answer 4

• Preconventional reality
• conventional morality
• post conventional morality

Question 5

What is the definition of preconventional reality?

Answer 5

Rules are only obeyed to avoid punishment and gain rewards

Question 6

What is the definition of conventional morality?

Answer 6

Standards of the authourative figures are internalized

Question 7

What is the definition of postconventional morality?

Answer 7

Following internally held moral principles and they are able to decide among conflicting moral standards

Question 8

What is Milligan’s stage of moral development?

Answer 8

• Orientation towards individual survival
• goodness as self sacrifice
• morality of nonviolence

Question 9

What is orientation towards individual survival?

Answer 9

The focus on what is best for self then the transition to what is best for others

Question 10

What is goodness as self sacrifice?

Answer 10

They sacrifice their own wishes for what others want then transition to taking account for both sides wants

Question 11

What is morality of nonviolence?

Answer 11

Seeing harming self or others as immoral