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A 3 page research paper that describes and compares 3 Internet sites that provide information on adolescent cognitive development. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: KL9_khintsites.doc
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adolescent cognitive development and the three sites were chosen due to their affiliation with reputable authoritarian organizations, which suggests that the information they provide is accurate. The first site
accessed provides a documented publishes by the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2002, A Reference for Professionals, Developing Adolescents. The section on adolescent cognitive development indicates that changes to how
teens think and reason and what they are capable of understanding are even more dramatic than changes in their physical development. It describes these changes and gives an overall view
of adolescent behavior as these changes occur. An information box, highlighted in yellow, specifies and describes the various idiosyncratic behaviors that are typically considered normal for teens, such as the
tendency to always find fault with whatever an adults position happens to be. Subheadings describe the topics of moral development and learning disabilities. The second site accessed provides a
chart that outlines the major points made in chapter 11 of a text by Diane Papalia, Sally Olds and Ruth Feldman, Human Development. The section of the chart that deals
with cognitive development indicates that adolescents are described buy Piagets formal operations stage, but it also points out the deficits in Piagets theory, such as the fact that Piaget did
not consider certain factors and pays little attention to individual differences (Papalia, Olds and Feldman). This site also gives a brief introduction to other theorists and their perspectives, such as
Elkind and Kohlberg, and describes some of the cognitive developmental features of adolescence. The third site accessed is the Health Library of the Lucile Packard Childrens Hospital at Stanford
(LPCHS) and this site provides general information on cognitive development, defining it, and then providing information that describes cognitive development during adolescence. This site is highly informative as the features
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