Discuss three key ways in which adolescents' thinking or ...

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Discuss three key ways in which adolescents' thinking or cognitive development changes compared to their middle childhood years.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Mr. Rivera is a teacher who adheres largely to behaviorist and social learning perspectives in his classroom. Describe at least three different things he might do in his classroom that would be consistent with these perspectives.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Answer to Question 1

Compared to children, adolescents can sustain their attention longer. Focused attention and improved memory capacity allow them to solve more advanced problems.
Adolescents have an improved sense of impulse control, though they also engage in impulsive behaviors at times.
Adolescents are more successful with multitasking. They are much better at monitoring and managing their thinking, which allows them to engage in simultaneous and sequential multitasking.
Adolescents are more capable of engaging in scientific reasoning. They are able to use inquiry, make inferences, argue various position, and generate multiple hypotheses. They are able to systematically carry out the steps of conducting an experiment.
Finally, adolescents differ from children in their epistemological beliefs and critical thinking. Very young children are relativistic; they believe that what they see is what everyone else sees and believes. Adolescents move to the multiplist stage of thinking; they understand that knowledge is not absolute. They recognize that even experts disagree.

Answer to Question 2

Mr. Rivera is apt to do the following (a response should include at least three of these):
a. Reward students who exhibit desired behaviors.
b. Punish (or possibly ignore) students who exhibit inappropriate behaviors.
c. Model the type of behaviors he wants students to display.
d. Make sure that his use of reward or punishment with one student is observed by other students.
e. Encourage students to set certain goals that they want to achieve.