After reading Chapter 15, students will know:
| Explain Piagetian approaches to cognitive development. |
| Describe cultural influences on formal operations. |
| Learn the consequences of adolescents' use of formal operations. |
| Evaluate Piaget's approach. |
| Describe information-processing perspectives. |
| Explain the relation between metacognition and cognitive advances in adolescence. |
| Describe adolescents' self-absorption. |
| Explain Kohlberg's theory of moral development. |
| Evaluate Kohlberg's theory. |
| Explain Gilligan's theory of moral development. |
| Evaluate Gilligan's theory. |
| Describe school performance and cognitive development. |
| Understand the relation between socioeconomic status and school performance. |
| Explain ethnic and racial differences in school achievement. |
| Describe the relation between attributions and beliefs about academic success. |
| Understand the affect of the Internet and World Wide Web on the lives of adolescents. |
| Describe school drop out. |
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