Deck 18: Seciton 2: Emerging Adulthood: Cognitive Development

Question 1

When a romantic relationship ends, a _____ thinker might conclude that one partner is at fault.

Answer 1

nondialectical

Question 2

An example of _____ is when adults can think things through, and change their minds after listening.

Answer 2

cognitive flexibility

Question 3

The United States ranks _____ of the major nations of the world for bachelor's degrees earned by 25- to 34-year-olds.

Answer 3

11th

Question 4

Contemporary students attend college primarily to secure better _____ and to learn specific skills.

Question 5

Building on Piaget's four stages of cognitive development, some developmentalists have proposed an additional stage referred to as _____ thought.

Question 6

Thinking in adulthood differs from earlier thinking in three major ways: It is more _____, more flexible, and more dialectical.

Question 7

College students-usually freshmen-at Perry's level of _____ think in terms of success versus failure and right versus wrong.

Question 8

The more _____ a problem is to a postformal thinker, the greater the number of possible solutions that might be generated.

Question 9

Logical skills seem to improve from adolescence to emerging adulthood and then stay steady, but social _____ continues to advance.

Question 10

The incidence of moral decision-making may _____ as people mature and confront various issues.

Question 11

William Perry suggests that over the course of their college careers, students' thinking progresses through _____ levels of complexity.

Question 12

Examples of individuals who were at the stage of _____ faith are Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mother Teresa.

Question 13

Some research finds that thinking becomes more reflective and expansive with each _____ at college.

Question 14

The possibility that one's appearance or behavior will be misread to confirm another person's oversimplified, prejudiced attitude is referred to as _____.

Question 15

Gilligan argued that girls were raised to develop a morality of _____.

Question 16

A tendency to undervalue future events is _____, a common logical error.

Question 17

In general, Defining Issues Test (DIT) scores _____ with age because adults gradually become less doctrinaire and self-serving and more flexible and altruistic.

Question 18

With respect to cognitive development, the _____ approach describes shifts in the nature of thought.

Question 19

A very unfortunate consequence of _____ threat is that it can be self-handicapping.

Question 20

Postformal logic combines _____ and subjectivity to become personal and practical.

Question 21

Educators disagree as to whether students can learn as much in a _____, an online course, as they would in a conventional class.

Question 22

The number of for-profit colleges has _____ between 1980 and 2010.

Question 23

In terms of gender, now most college students in every developed nation are _____.