What are the consequences of adolescents' use of formal operations?
What will be an ideal response?
A good answer would include the following key points:
- Adolescents' ability to reason abstractly, leads to a change in everyday behavior.
- Whereas earlier they may have unquestioningly accepted rules and explanations set out for them, their increased abstract reasoning abilities may lead some to question authority.
- Advances in abstract reasoning also lead to greater idealism.
- Children in this period may become more argumentative. Additionally, adolescents can be indecisive, as they are able to see the merits of multiple sides to issues.
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a) id b) ego c) thanatos d) superego
In a study that is described in the textbook, excerpts from American and Japanese newspapers and TV reports regarding athletes in the 2000 Olympics were analyzed for causal statements. The results demonstrated that
a. U.S. writers tended to make stronger situational attributions. b. Japanese writers tended to consider a broad range of factors. c. by being objective, most of the writers overcame the tendency to make the fundamental attribution errors. d. the fundamental attribution error is a universal tendency.