CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Fourteen-year-old Monica is very idealistic and often develops crushes on people she doesn’t even know. This reflects her newly developed cognitive ability to:
A
imagine possible worlds and people.
B
take another person’s viewpoint.
C
deal simultaneously with two sides of an issue.
D
see herself as others see her.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Puberty May Make It Harder to Learn Some Things, but Easier to Learn Others. Children can learn certain things better than teenagers or adults can. For example, young children are particularly good at learning new languages. It becomes much harder to learn a second language after a person is 9–11 years old.

Detailed explanation-2: -Adolescence is a time of significant growth and development inside the teenage brain. The main change is that unused connections in the thinking and processing part of your child’s brain (called the grey matter) are ‘pruned’ away. At the same time, other connections are strengthened.

Detailed explanation-3: -Typical Cognitive Changes During Adolescence. During adolescence (between 12 and 18 years of age), the developing teenager gains the ability to think systematically about all logical relationships within a problem. The transition from concrete thinking to formal logical operations happens over time.

Detailed explanation-4: -Reflective thinking is a complex form of cognition almost exclusively associated with adulthood and adult development.

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