chapter 18: Emerging Adulthood: Cognitive Development

Question 1

A proposed adult stage of cognitive development, following Piaget’s 4stages. Goes beyond adolescent thinking by being more practical, more flexible and more dialectical

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POSTFORMAL THOUGHT

Question 2

thinking that is strongly influence by personal qualities of the individual thinker, such as past experiences, cultural assumptions and goals for the future

Answer 2

SUBJECTIVE THINKING

Question 3

That is OBJECTIVE THINKING?

Answer 3

thinking that is not influenced by the thinkers personal qualities, but involved facts and numbers that are universally considered true and valid.

Question 4

The possibliity that one’s appearance or behavior will be misread to confirm another person’s oversimplified prejudiced attitudes

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STEREOTYPE THREAT

Question 5

advanced cognitive process characterized by the ability to consider a thesis and its antithesis simultaneously and thus to arrive at a synthesis.

Answer 5

DIALECTICAL THOUGHT

Question 6

proposition or statement of belief. first stage of the process of dialectical thinking

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THESIS

Question 7

proposition that opposes thesis and is the second stage of dialectical thought

Answer 7

ANTITHESIS

Question 8

A new idea that integrates the thesis and its antithesis thus representing a new and more comprehensive level of truth. the 3rd stage of dialectical thinking

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SYNTHESIS