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Chapter 11:
Physical and Cognitive Development
in Adolescence
In This Chapter
Adolescence
Physical Changes
Other Body Systems: Growth Spurts
First growth spurt
 Cephalocaudal/
proximodistal patterns
 Joint development
 Gender differences
Second growth spurt
 Muscle fibers
 Heart and lung
 Body fat levels
 Gender differences
Physical Changes
The Brain
Two major growth spurts in teenage years
13-15 years: Largely related to parts of brain
that control spatial perceptions and motor
functions
15+ years: Changes in prefrontal cortex
responsible for executive processing
Physical Changes
The Skeletal System
Physical Changes
The Muscular System
What do you know about…?
 Growth patterns
 Gender differences
Physical Changes
The Heart and Lungs
What do you know about…?
 Growth patterns
 Gender differences
Physical Changes:
Milestones of Puberty
Puberty: Changes needed for reproductive
maturity
 Endocrine glands
 Pituitary gland
Milestones of
Puberty
Physical Changes
Endocrine and Reproductive Systems:
Overview
 Thyroid gland
 Adrenal androgen
 Gender differences
Physical Changes
Sexual Development in Girls: Secular Trend
Menarche: First menstruation
 Occurs 2 years after beginning of other
visible signs
 Pregnancy can occur after menarche
Physical Changes
Endocrine and Reproductive Systems:
Sex Characteristics
Primary sex characteristics
 Growth of testes and penis
 Growth of ovaries, uterus, and vagina
Secondary sex characteristics
 Breast development
 Changing voice pitch
 Beard growth
 Body hair
Physical Changes
Sexual Development in Girls: Secular Trend
Secular trend: Timing of menarche
 Lowering of the age of menarche by 4
months per decade
 Due mainly to changes in diet and lifestyle
BOYS
Physical Changes
Sexual Development in Boys
• Sperm production begins
between 12 and 14
• First ejaculation about age
13 or 14
• Genital development and
pubic hair development
precedes the end of the
growth spurt.
• Development of beard
and voice changes occur
near the end of the
sequence
Physical Changes
Sexual Development in Girls
• Heredity and
behavioral factors
influence hormonal
secretions
• Major body changes
before age 11 or 12;
consistently more
negative body
image
• Social context
influences change
GIRLS
Physical Changes
Sexual Behavior: Overview
 Boys more sexually active than girls
 Reports of sexual intercourse varies across
ethnic groups
 Rate declined substantially over last three
decades
Physical Changes
Sexual Behavior: Early Sexuality
Social Factors
Social Factors
Figure 11.1 Sexual Activity in High School
Students
Figure 11.1
Physical Changes
Prevalence of Sexual Behavior
Age of sexual activity initiation
1988 (15-19 yrs) 2008 (15-19 yrs)
60% Males 43% Males
51% Females 42% Females
What do these data tell us?
Physical Changes
Sexual Behavior
Girls who are sexually active
 Early menarche
 Low interest in school and school
activities
 Early dating
 History of sexual abuse
Physical Changes
Sexual Behavior: Moral Beliefs
Activities and moral beliefs influence lower
sexual activity among teens who:
 Believe premarital sex is wrong
 Attend religious services
 Participate in school activities
 Do not use alcohol
Physical Changes
Sexual Behavior and Education
 Despite school units, teens show ignorance
of STDs
 Fail to discuss condom use
 Abstinence and contraceptive education still
controversial in many schools
Adolescent Sexuality
Adolescent Pregnancy
 Higher in U.S. than many other industrialized
countries.
 Far more frequent among older adolescents.
 Relative frequency of teens who are
unmarried has increased but teen birth rates
have dropped overall.
Physical Changes
Adolescent Pregnancy
Ethnic differences in teens who marry
 African Americans
 Hispanic Americans
 Caucasian Americans
Physical Changes
Adolescent Pregnancy
Factors in teenage pregnancy
 Onset age of sexual activity
 Poverty and family influence
 Less school success
 Less contraception use
Physical Changes
Adolescent Pregnancy
What happens when teens get pregnant?
Physical Changes
Adolescent Pregnancy: Children of Teen
Mothers
Negative Outcomes
 Achieve
developmental
milestones more
slowly when infants
 Grow up in poverty
Positive Possibilities
 Negative effects can
be mitigated by
support from girl’s
own parents
 Staying in school and
social programs
positively help both
child and mother
Physical Changes
Sexual Minority Youth
Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Adolescents
Realization
 Realization begins in middle school
 Few accept their homosexuality during
adolescence
Cause
 Prenatal hormone patterns may be causal
factor in homosexuality
 Twin studies suggest biological basis
Physical Changes
Transgendered Teens
 Transgender teen: Psychological gender
differs from their biological sex
 Higher rates of depression and suicide
 Cause is debated
Adolescent Health
Sensation Seeking
Sensation seeking: Desire to experience
increased levels of arousal (through risky
behavior)
 Gain peer acceptance and autonomy
from parents
 Response to popular media’s messages
 Brain growth
Adolescent Health
Drugs, Alcohol, and Tobacco Use
 Teen use of drugs down but still a significant
problem.
 Alcohol use is prevalent.
 Sensation-seeking is related to increased
use of alcohol and drugs.
Figure 11.2 Illicit Drug Use Trends Among Teenagers
True or False
The decline in teen use of illicit drugs is due to
an increased and better understanding of
consequences.
Adolescent Health
Drugs, Alcohol, and Tobacco
Tobacco Use
 Fewer teens are regular smokers than
generation ago.
 Teens who are more likely to smoke are
influenced by smoking peers.
Adolescent Health
Body Image and Eating Disorders
Eating disorder: Mental disorder in which
eating behavior goes beyond everyday
experiences with trying to lose weight
 Anorexia nervosa
 Bulimia
Stop and Think!
What contributes to or causes eating
disorders?
Adolescent Health
Depression and Suicide
Incidence
 Depression
 Suicide
Causes or contributing factors
 Depression
 Suicide
Consequences
 Depression
 Suicide
Who has advantages or disadvantages – early
maturing boys or early maturing girls? What
happens to late maturing boys or girls?
Your friend suffers from anorexia or depression.
How do you help her?
Questions To PonderQuestions To PonderQuestions To PonderQuestions To Ponder
Changes in Thinking And Memory
Piaget’s Formal Operational Thought
Formal Operational Stage: Reasoning
logically about abstract concepts
Key elements
Figure 11.3 Within-Stage Development in Formal
Operations
Figure 11.2
Changes in Thinking And Memory
Direct Tests of Piaget’s Views on Formal
Operations
Tasks
 Complex reasoning tasks
 Metaphors
 Decision-making
Education levels influence use of formal
operational thought
Changes in Thinking And Memory
Advances in Information-Processing
Task improvement with age
 Metacognition
 Metamemory
 Strategy use increase
 Text learning
Stop and Think!
Research findings show achievement
declines after entering high school.
Why do you think such declines
may occur?
Schooling
Transition to Secondary School
Is the goal the goal?
Middle school
 Task goals: Based on personal
standards and desire to become more
competent
 Ability goals: Define success in
competitive terms
Schooling
Middle School: Ability Grouping
 Emphasis on ability grouping
 Students may change beliefs about
individual abilities
 High achievers
 Low achievers
Schooling
Middle School: School Climate
Perception of school climate
Successful intervention strategies
 Mentor
 Homeroom teacher
 Student teams
 Parental involvement
Schooling
High School Success
 Early days of high school set pattern
 Activity participation helps develop
psychological attributes
Schooling
Gender, Ethnicity, and Science and Math
Achievement
 Girls at risk for achievement losses in
transition to high school
 Gender gap widest among most
intellectually talented students
 Girls suffer in sciences not offering
hands-on activities
 Girls often discouraged from taking
courses in science
Schooling
Gender, Ethnicity, and Science and Math
Achievement
• Gender gap widens in math
• Ethnic variations exist
Schooling
Dropping Out of High School
Links
Ethnicity, peer group, low value on completion,
history of academic failure
Profiles
Quiet, disengaged, low-achieving, and poorly
adjusted students at high risk
Consequences
Unemployment, lower wages, depression, and
increased criminal activity

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Bee & Boyd, Lifespan Development, Chapter 11

  • 1. Chapter 11: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence
  • 4. Physical Changes Other Body Systems: Growth Spurts First growth spurt  Cephalocaudal/ proximodistal patterns  Joint development  Gender differences Second growth spurt  Muscle fibers  Heart and lung  Body fat levels  Gender differences
  • 5. Physical Changes The Brain Two major growth spurts in teenage years 13-15 years: Largely related to parts of brain that control spatial perceptions and motor functions 15+ years: Changes in prefrontal cortex responsible for executive processing
  • 7. Physical Changes The Muscular System What do you know about…?  Growth patterns  Gender differences
  • 8. Physical Changes The Heart and Lungs What do you know about…?  Growth patterns  Gender differences
  • 9. Physical Changes: Milestones of Puberty Puberty: Changes needed for reproductive maturity  Endocrine glands  Pituitary gland
  • 11. Physical Changes Endocrine and Reproductive Systems: Overview  Thyroid gland  Adrenal androgen  Gender differences
  • 12. Physical Changes Sexual Development in Girls: Secular Trend Menarche: First menstruation  Occurs 2 years after beginning of other visible signs  Pregnancy can occur after menarche
  • 13. Physical Changes Endocrine and Reproductive Systems: Sex Characteristics Primary sex characteristics  Growth of testes and penis  Growth of ovaries, uterus, and vagina Secondary sex characteristics  Breast development  Changing voice pitch  Beard growth  Body hair
  • 14. Physical Changes Sexual Development in Girls: Secular Trend Secular trend: Timing of menarche  Lowering of the age of menarche by 4 months per decade  Due mainly to changes in diet and lifestyle
  • 15. BOYS Physical Changes Sexual Development in Boys • Sperm production begins between 12 and 14 • First ejaculation about age 13 or 14 • Genital development and pubic hair development precedes the end of the growth spurt. • Development of beard and voice changes occur near the end of the sequence
  • 16. Physical Changes Sexual Development in Girls • Heredity and behavioral factors influence hormonal secretions • Major body changes before age 11 or 12; consistently more negative body image • Social context influences change GIRLS
  • 17. Physical Changes Sexual Behavior: Overview  Boys more sexually active than girls  Reports of sexual intercourse varies across ethnic groups  Rate declined substantially over last three decades
  • 18. Physical Changes Sexual Behavior: Early Sexuality Social Factors Social Factors
  • 19. Figure 11.1 Sexual Activity in High School Students Figure 11.1
  • 20. Physical Changes Prevalence of Sexual Behavior Age of sexual activity initiation 1988 (15-19 yrs) 2008 (15-19 yrs) 60% Males 43% Males 51% Females 42% Females What do these data tell us?
  • 21. Physical Changes Sexual Behavior Girls who are sexually active  Early menarche  Low interest in school and school activities  Early dating  History of sexual abuse
  • 22. Physical Changes Sexual Behavior: Moral Beliefs Activities and moral beliefs influence lower sexual activity among teens who:  Believe premarital sex is wrong  Attend religious services  Participate in school activities  Do not use alcohol
  • 23. Physical Changes Sexual Behavior and Education  Despite school units, teens show ignorance of STDs  Fail to discuss condom use  Abstinence and contraceptive education still controversial in many schools
  • 24. Adolescent Sexuality Adolescent Pregnancy  Higher in U.S. than many other industrialized countries.  Far more frequent among older adolescents.  Relative frequency of teens who are unmarried has increased but teen birth rates have dropped overall.
  • 25. Physical Changes Adolescent Pregnancy Ethnic differences in teens who marry  African Americans  Hispanic Americans  Caucasian Americans
  • 26. Physical Changes Adolescent Pregnancy Factors in teenage pregnancy  Onset age of sexual activity  Poverty and family influence  Less school success  Less contraception use
  • 27. Physical Changes Adolescent Pregnancy What happens when teens get pregnant?
  • 28. Physical Changes Adolescent Pregnancy: Children of Teen Mothers Negative Outcomes  Achieve developmental milestones more slowly when infants  Grow up in poverty Positive Possibilities  Negative effects can be mitigated by support from girl’s own parents  Staying in school and social programs positively help both child and mother
  • 29. Physical Changes Sexual Minority Youth Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Adolescents Realization  Realization begins in middle school  Few accept their homosexuality during adolescence Cause  Prenatal hormone patterns may be causal factor in homosexuality  Twin studies suggest biological basis
  • 30. Physical Changes Transgendered Teens  Transgender teen: Psychological gender differs from their biological sex  Higher rates of depression and suicide  Cause is debated
  • 31. Adolescent Health Sensation Seeking Sensation seeking: Desire to experience increased levels of arousal (through risky behavior)  Gain peer acceptance and autonomy from parents  Response to popular media’s messages  Brain growth
  • 32. Adolescent Health Drugs, Alcohol, and Tobacco Use  Teen use of drugs down but still a significant problem.  Alcohol use is prevalent.  Sensation-seeking is related to increased use of alcohol and drugs.
  • 33. Figure 11.2 Illicit Drug Use Trends Among Teenagers
  • 34. True or False The decline in teen use of illicit drugs is due to an increased and better understanding of consequences.
  • 35. Adolescent Health Drugs, Alcohol, and Tobacco Tobacco Use  Fewer teens are regular smokers than generation ago.  Teens who are more likely to smoke are influenced by smoking peers.
  • 36. Adolescent Health Body Image and Eating Disorders Eating disorder: Mental disorder in which eating behavior goes beyond everyday experiences with trying to lose weight  Anorexia nervosa  Bulimia
  • 37. Stop and Think! What contributes to or causes eating disorders?
  • 38. Adolescent Health Depression and Suicide Incidence  Depression  Suicide Causes or contributing factors  Depression  Suicide Consequences  Depression  Suicide
  • 39. Who has advantages or disadvantages – early maturing boys or early maturing girls? What happens to late maturing boys or girls? Your friend suffers from anorexia or depression. How do you help her? Questions To PonderQuestions To PonderQuestions To PonderQuestions To Ponder
  • 40. Changes in Thinking And Memory Piaget’s Formal Operational Thought Formal Operational Stage: Reasoning logically about abstract concepts Key elements
  • 41. Figure 11.3 Within-Stage Development in Formal Operations Figure 11.2
  • 42. Changes in Thinking And Memory Direct Tests of Piaget’s Views on Formal Operations Tasks  Complex reasoning tasks  Metaphors  Decision-making Education levels influence use of formal operational thought
  • 43. Changes in Thinking And Memory Advances in Information-Processing Task improvement with age  Metacognition  Metamemory  Strategy use increase  Text learning
  • 44. Stop and Think! Research findings show achievement declines after entering high school. Why do you think such declines may occur?
  • 45. Schooling Transition to Secondary School Is the goal the goal? Middle school  Task goals: Based on personal standards and desire to become more competent  Ability goals: Define success in competitive terms
  • 46. Schooling Middle School: Ability Grouping  Emphasis on ability grouping  Students may change beliefs about individual abilities  High achievers  Low achievers
  • 47. Schooling Middle School: School Climate Perception of school climate Successful intervention strategies  Mentor  Homeroom teacher  Student teams  Parental involvement
  • 48. Schooling High School Success  Early days of high school set pattern  Activity participation helps develop psychological attributes
  • 49. Schooling Gender, Ethnicity, and Science and Math Achievement  Girls at risk for achievement losses in transition to high school  Gender gap widest among most intellectually talented students  Girls suffer in sciences not offering hands-on activities  Girls often discouraged from taking courses in science
  • 50. Schooling Gender, Ethnicity, and Science and Math Achievement • Gender gap widens in math • Ethnic variations exist
  • 51. Schooling Dropping Out of High School Links Ethnicity, peer group, low value on completion, history of academic failure Profiles Quiet, disengaged, low-achieving, and poorly adjusted students at high risk Consequences Unemployment, lower wages, depression, and increased criminal activity

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  1. Period of tremendous physical and cognitive growth Able to devise new, complex plans A time of risk and opportunity Some risks have long-lasting consequences
  2. Kurt Fisher and Samuel Rose believe that a qualitatively different neural network emerges during the brain growth spurt that occurs between 13 and 15. First Brain Growth Spurt Between 13 and 15 Cerebral cortex thickens Neuronal pathways more efficient More energy consumed during growth spurt Takes place in spatial perception and motor areas Enables abstract thought and reflection on cognitive processes Second Brain Growth Spurt Begins approximately age 17 Frontal lobes of brain Associated with logic and planning
  3. Two major growth spurts in teenage years 13-15 years: largely related to parts of brain that control spatial perceptions and motor functions; enables teens to think abstractly and metacognitively 15+ years: changes in prefrontal cortex; responsible for executive processing; contributes to conscious control, social perception, and organized thought processes
  4. Growth may be 3 – 6 inches a year Girls attain most of their height by 16 Boys continue to grow until 18 – 20 Hands and feet are the first to grow The trunk is the slowest-growing Joint development improves coordination This growth may occur for several years.
  5. Muscle fibers become thicker and denser By age 17, boys can be as much as 3 times stronger than girls Men – 40% of total body mass is muscle Women – 24% of total mass is muscle Largely a result of hormonal differences Girls have a rise in body fat while boys have a drop Canadian study of teenagers’ strength measured by hanging from a bar with eyes level to the bar. Girls have a rise in body fat from 21% to 24% by age 17, while boys have a drop from 16.1% to 14%.
  6. Increase in size Heart rate drops Greater change in boys than in girls Improved capacity for sustained physical effort Boys gain a clear advantage in endurance, as well as in size, strength, and speed
  7. Endocrine glands Secrete hormones governing pubertal growth and physical changes Endocrine glands Testes and ovaries develop Sex hormones released Testosterone for males Estradiol for girls Pituitary gland Master gland – triggers hormone release from other glands Gonadotrophic hormones – responsible for development of sex organs See Table 11.1 The thyroid also secretes thyroid stimulating hormone and general growth hormone to affect growth.
  8. Endocrine glands Secrete hormones governing pubertal growth and physical changes Endocrine glands Testes and ovaries develop Sex hormones released Testosterone for males Estradiol for girls Pituitary gland Master gland – triggers hormone release from other glands Gonadotrophic hormones – responsible for development of sex organs See Table 11.1 The thyroid also secretes thyroid stimulating hormone and general growth hormone to affect growth.
  9. The Thyroid Gland Thyroxin General growth hormone and brain development Adrenal Androgen Important for girls Triggers growth spurt Affects development of secondary sex characteristics Less significant for boys Due to large amounts of testosterone Increase in size Heart rate drops Greater change in boys than in girls Improved capacity for sustained physical effort Boys gain a clear advantage in endurance, as well as in size, strength, and speed The thyroid interacts with adrenal androgen to promote growth. Hormonal changes trigger changes in the brain, bones, muscles, and other body organs.
  10. Occurs 2 years after beginning of other visible signs Average age – between 12 and 13 Irregular menstrual cycles first few years. Ovum may not be produced during every cycle Secular trend Lowering of the age of menarche by 4 months per decade Due mainly to changes in diet and lifestyle Pregnancy can occur after menarche
  11. See Table 11.2
  12. Secular trend Lowering of the age of menarche by 4 months per decade Due mainly to changes in diet and lifestyle Hormonal changes that triggers appearance of these characteristics also signals body’s weight regulation mechanisms to increase fat stores Pregnancy can occur after menarche
  13. Girls must have 17% body fat to enter puberty and 22% body fat to maintain regularly monthly cycles once menarche occurs. Problem behaviors in early developing girls include getting into trouble in school and at home, more likely to get involved with misbehaving peer groups, engaging in delinquent behavior, depression, and smoking. Heredity and behavioral factors influence hormonal secretions Body fat linked to beginning of puberty for girls Early developing girls Major body changes before age 11 or 12 Consistently more negative body image More likely to show problem behaviors Early or late developing boys associated with depression Early developing boys may be associated with leadership Social context of change Activities that inhibit development of body fat may delay puberty, such as sustained strenuous exercise
  14. See Figure 11.1 Boys more sexually active than girls Sexual activity increases with age Reports of sexual intercourse varies across ethnic groups 61% of African Americans 43% of Hispanics 39% of Caucasians
  15. Social factors Poverty Unsupervised by adults More likely to use alcohol More likely to be abused/neglected Sexually active is defined as having had sex at least once within 3 months of responding to the survey.
  16. Graph illustrates data from a representative sample of more than 15,000 high school students interviewed in 2009
  17. A higher number of risk factors increases likelihood of sexual activity
  18. Despite school units, teens show ignorance of STDs Fail to discuss condom use 57% female and 79% males use condoms 30% sexually active females use the pill (15-17 yrs.) Abstinence and contraceptive education still controversial in many schools
  19. Higher in the U.S. than many other industrialized countries, such as Israel or Japan 17% of African American births 8% of Caucasian births 14% of Hispanic births Far more frequent among older adolescents Teen birth rates have dropped Relative frequency of teens who are unmarried has increased
  20. Ethnic differences in teens who marry Less than 5% of African American teen mothers marry the baby’s father 26% of Hispanic American teen mothers marry the baby’s father 41% of Caucasian American teen mothers marry the baby’s father Overall, only 17% of teen mothers maintain romantic relationships with their babies’ fathers
  21. Less teen pregnancy among girls who do well in school More likely to use contraceptives if sexually active More likely to have good communication about sex and contraception with their mothers
  22. 1/3 of teen pregnancies end in abortion 14% result in miscarriage 7% of Whites and 1% of African American teens carry the baby to term and place it up for adoption
  23. Twin studies show when one identical twin is homosexual, the probability that the other will be is 50–60% Male homosexuality runs in families Twin study findings strengthen a biological basis hypothesis for homosexuality By adulthood, 94% of people say they are exclusively heterosexual, 5% describe themselves as gay, lesbian, or bisexual
  24. Some undergo sexual reassignment, typically as adults, sometimes as teensCause/theories Exposure to atypical androgen amount prenatally Often report early interests in activities associated with opposite sex Do not exhibit transgenderism after puberty
  25. Sensation seeking: desire to experience increased levels of arousal (through risky behavior) Risky behavior may gain peer acceptance and autonomy from parents Popular media’s messages of sex, violence, drugs, and alcohol may influence risky behavior Teens not involved in extracurricular activities and who value popularity are at risk Only 4% of incidents portray potential negative consequences of sexual activity. 98% of movies show characters using some substance.
  26. Teen use of illicit drugs down less common than in generations Still significant problem Alcohol use is prevalent Sensation-seeking is related to increased use of alcohol and drugs 10th graders and 8th graders also report binge drinking (defined as consuming 5 or more drinks on a single occasion).
  27. See this table to review the percentage of teens who have used illicit drugs in the past 12 months
  28. Maybe…maybe not. What does the class think? Why?
  29. Tobacco Use Fewer teens are regular smokers than a generation ago Educational efforts Teens familiar with health reasons for not smoking Also want to be attractive romantic partners Teens who are more likely to smoke are Influenced by peers who smoke Especially vulnerable to peers between 15 and 17 years old
  30. Although most teens are weight-conscious, eating disorders are more extreme 25% teens have at least one symptoms of eating disorder Sufferers have a distorted body image Eating disorders can be fatal; 4-18% starve themselves to death/cardiovascular sysfunction More common among girls, and also gay and lesbian teens Anorexia nervosa Extreme dieting Intense fear of gaining weight Weight loss approaching starvation Symptoms may include cessation of menstruation, insensitivity to pain, loss of hair, low blood pressure, and death More distorted body image than bulimic Bulimia Frequent cycles of binge eating Purging through self-induced vomiting, laxatives, or excessive exercise Intense concern about weight Not abnormally thin Feel intense shame about their behavior May experience significant depression Symptoms include tooth decay, stomach irritation, lowered body temperature, and loss of hair
  31. Negative body images Girls who participate in activities such as ballet and gymnastics Emphasis on thinness as a characteristic of attractive women General tendency towards mental illness Girls who internalize the “thin ideal” in middle childhood more dissatisfied with body image. Biological cause-brain dysfunction Heredity Psychoanalytic-fear of growing up Preexisting psychological health/tendency toward distorted thinking
  32. 5% are depressed at any given time Girls are twice as likely as boys Associated with disorder of the pituitary gland Causes Genetic basis Growing up with a depressed parent Low self-esteem Can hinder academic performance Therapeutic interventions include medication. Suicide Girls think about suicide more but boys are 5 times as likely to commit suicide. Depression is one ingredient. Aggression is common. Family history of suicide or drug use is often present. Contributing factors Some triggering stressful event An altered mental state An opportunity
  33. Systematic problem solving The ability to search methodically for an answer Logic Hypothetico-deductive reasoning Adolescent egocentrism
  34. These are the results from two of the ten different formal operational tasks used in Martorano’s cross-sectional study
  35. See Figure 11.2 Older children generally do better on complex reasoning tasks. Formal Operational reasoning enables teens to understand metaphors. Influenced how teens make decisions. Nearly 3/5 of 12th graders did not show future orientation thinking. Formal operational thinking is not used on every problem. Education levels influence the use of formal operational thought. Future orientation thinking in response to a dilemma is associated with formal operational reasoning.
  36. Metacognition, metamemory, and strategy use increase with age Text learning The ability to summarize a text improves gradually during the second half of adolescence Outlining improves with age, as well Capacity to apply memory strategies selectively based on characteristics of memory task, appears early in teen years and continues to improve throughout adolescence
  37. Middle school Task goals – based on personal standards and a desire to become more competent Associated with greater sense of personal control and positive attitudes about school Ability goals – define success in competitive terms Students may adopt relative standards – good means beating someone else. Most 5th graders have task goals, but by 6th grade most have switched to ability goals.
  38. Perception of school climate Many students find schools to be impersonal and unsupportive. Providing a student with an adult mentor helps. Homeroom teacher Successful interventions improve grades. Organizing teachers and students into teams Teachers at each grade level devise strategies for student and parental involvement.
  39. Teens who fail one or more classes in the first year of high school are fare less likely than their peers to graduate. Participation in activities in high school helps develop psychological attributes that can’t be acquired elsewhere. Intrinsic motivation was higher in elective classes and extracurricular activities.
  40. Gender gap widens in math, as well. Academically talented girls are often less confident than male counterparts. Ethnic variations Only 1/3 of African American and Hispanic students have 2 years of algebra. May not be prepared in 9th grade for higher math classes May not have been encouraged to go to college and lacked the necessary preparation
  41. Social class is better predictor of school completion than ethnicity When a teen’s peer group puts a low value on completion, teens are more likely to drop out. Students with a history of academic failure are at risk Low-income families have higher rates of children who drop out – especially families with single parents.