Lifespan Development: Final Exam Review| 164 Questions | With Complete Solutions

what one thinks of self and how one assesses what they think of self correct answer: self-concept the evaluative component of self-concept; driven by cognitive development and socialization correct answer: self-esteem abilities that allow individuals to process information about their own and others' emotions and to use that information to guide their thinking and behavior correct answer: emotional intelligence the ultimate social influence for adolescents correct answer: peers ___'s stages of ___ devolopment: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational correct answer: Piaget's stages of cognitive development in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (from about 6 or 7 to 11 years of age) during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events and understand spatial concepts correct answer: concrete operational stage in Piaget's theory, the stage (from birth to about 2 years of age) during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities correct answer: sensorimotor stage in Piaget's theory, the stage (from about 2 to 6 or 7 years of age) during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic correct answer: preoperational stage in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (normally beginning about age 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts, and meta-cognition correct answer: formal operational stage the capacity to think through a series of steps and then mentally reverse direction, returning to the starting point correct answer: reversibility the ability to sort objects by various dimensions such as color or shape correct answer: grouping focusing on several aspects of a problem and relating them, rather than centering on just one correct answer: decentration the principle (which Piaget believed to be a part of concrete operational reasoning) that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects correct answer: conservation Measure of intellectual functioning; an expression of an individual's mental capacity at any given point in time compared to others the same age correct answer: What IQ test scores predict this condition affects self-regulation of inhibition, paying attention, rule-following, self-directed speech, motiv