Adolescent Vulnerabilities and Opportunities Developmental and Constructivist Perspectives
This book explores the central importance of adolescents' own activities in their development. This focus harkens back to Jean Piaget's genetic epistemology and provides a theoretically coherent vision of what makes adolescence a distinctive period of development, with unique opportunities...
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| Médium: | E-kniha Kniha |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
19.09.2011
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| Edice: | Interdisciplinary perspectives on knowledge and development : the Jean Piaget symposium series |
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| ISBN: | 0521768462, 9780521768467, 1107423600, 9781107423602 |
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- Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Series editor's preface -- Preface -- 1. Constructivist Processes in Adolescent Development -- Constructivism and genetic epistemology -- Constructivism and adolescent development -- On babies and bathwater -- Themes of the papers -- Biological and cognitive development -- Psychosocial and socio-relational development -- Summary and conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part I Biological and Cognitive Perspective -- 2. Structural Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Typically Developing Children and Adolescents -- Trajectories of brain morphometry in typical pediatric development -- Total cerebral volume -- Ventricles -- White matter -- Gray matter -- Cortical gray matter -- Subcortical gray matter -- Basal ganglia. -- Amygdala and hippocampus. -- Basal ganglia. -- Amygdala and hippocampus. -- Cortical gray matter -- Subcortical gray matter -- Basal ganglia. -- Amygdala and hippocampus. -- Influences on developmental trajectories of brain anatomy during childhood and adolescence -- Nature/nurture -- Male/female -- Specific genes -- Brain-behavior correlations -- Conclusion -- References -- 3. Adolescent Risk Taking: A Social Neuroscience Perspective -- A dual-systems model of adolescent risk taking -- The study -- Self-reported impulsivity -- Self-reported reward seeking -- Tower of london -- Modified igt -- Delay discounting -- Findings -- Concluding comments -- References -- 4. What Are the Cognitive Skills Adolescents Need for Life in the Twenty-First Century? -- Becoming multiple-cause thinkers -- Entering the world of intellectual discourse -- Valuing discourse -- An argument curriculum for middle schoolers -- What develops? -- Strategic development: addressing the other's argument -- Integrating evidence into argument
- But what is the stuff of friendship and what does "it" mean for measurement? -- Companionship -- Conflict -- Help -- Security -- Closeness -- Summary -- A structural or process approach to the features of friendship -- Summary -- Using a structural approach to study the development and the effects of friendship -- Are interactions antecedent to relationships? -- Relationship measures as mediators -- Do these associations between interactions vary as a function of risk? -- Study summary -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 9. Schools, Peers, and the Big Picture of Adolescent Development -- The social and academic sides of school -- Connecting the two sides of high school -- Historical perspective -- Dramatic changes in u.s. demography -- School reorganization -- The information technology revolution -- Economic restructuring -- Converging trends -- A specific dimension of the connection between social and academic experiences -- Stigma, coping, and consequences -- Obesity and poverty -- Locating mechanisms -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Index -- Series
- Transfer across domains and to individual expository argument -- Epistemological achievements -- Conclusion -- References -- 5. Hypothetical Thinking in Adolescence: Its Nature, Development, and Applications -- The nature of hypothetical thinking -- Formal operations and hypothetical reasoning -- Hypothetical thinking as child's play -- Hypothetical thinking as hard work -- Dual process theory and hypothetical thinking: theory and applications -- Summary and conclusions -- References -- Part II Social and Contextual Perspective -- 6. Testing, Testing: Everyday Storytelling and the Construction of Adolescent Identity -- Why identity is an important problem for adolescents -- Stories as exquisite vehicles for making sense of lived experience -- Storytelling as a collaborative and potentially contentious process -- Vignettes of how adolescent identities get tested in the process of everyday storytelling -- Meta-theoretical issues with regard to localizing identity work in everyday storytelling -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 7. Adolescents' Social Reasoning and Relationships with Parents: Conflicts and Coordinations Within and Across Domains -- Adolescents' and parents' reasoning about conflict -- Adolescents' perspectives on conflict -- Parents' perspectives on conflict -- Conflict as (a lack of) interpersonal coordination -- Heterogeneity in social thought -- Beliefs about legitimate parental authority -- Adolescents' reasoning and strategies for information management -- Peer influence -- Developmental changes in personal concepts -- Coordinations across domains -- Conclusions -- References -- 8. Representations, Process, and Development: A New Look at Friendship in Early Adolescence -- Features of friendship in early adolescence: evolving representations of friendship -- Summary