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Describe adolescent cognitive development.
 
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Which of the following research findings would lend support for a biological cause of autism?
 
  a. discovering that parents of autistic children are deficient in their parenting
  b. finding that peer rejection is correlated with autistic behaviors in children
  c. discovering that concordance rates for ASDs are about 60 percent among identical twins
  d. finding that poor nutrition is related to ASDs



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Answer to Question 1

The key to understanding adolescent cognitive development is to understand Piaget's concept of formal operations. The adolescent entering this stage enjoys new intellectual abilities, including being able to engage in abstract and hypothetical thinking. This sometimes leads to a pattern of thinking called what if. In this pattern of thinking, adolescents begin to imagine a world better than the one in which they are living. In addition, the adolescent can understand metaphors in which words or phrases that typically signify one thing can be applied to another.

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