The adolescent brain learning, reasoning, and decision making

• Corporate Author: American Psychological Association
• Other Authors: Reyna, Valerie F. 1955- (Editor), Chapman, Sandra B. (Editor), Dougherty, Michael R. (Editor), Confrey, Jere (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC American Psychological Association 2012
• Edition: First edition
• Subjects: Psychology, Adolescent; Mental Processes; Adolescent
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The period from adolescence through young adulthood is one of great promise and vulnerability. As teenagers approach maturity, they must develop and apply the skills and habits necessary to navigate adulthood and compete in an ever more technological and globalized world. But as parents and research...

Table of Contents:

• Anatomic magnetic resonance imaging of the developing child and adolescent brain / Jay N. Giedd ... [et al.]
• Semantic and associative relations in adolescents and young adults : examining a tenuous dichotomy / Ken McRae, Saman Khalkhali, and Mary Hare
• Representation and transfer of abstract mathematical concepts in adolescence and young adulthood / Jennifer A. Kaminski and Vladimir M. Sloutsky
• A value of concrete learning materials in adolescence / Kristen P. Blair and Daniel L. Schwartz
• Higher order strategic gist reasoning in adolescence / Sandra B. Chapman, Jacquelyn F. Gamino, and Raksha Anand Mudar
• Better measurement of higher cognitive processes through learning trajectories and diagnostic assessments in mathematics : the challenge in adolescence / Jere Confrey
• Adolescent reasoning in mathematical and nonmathematical domains : exploring the paradox / Eric Knuth ... [et al.]
• Training the adolescent brain : neural plasticity and the acquisition of cognitive abilities / Sharona M. Atkins ... [et al.]
• Higher cognition is altered by noncognitive factors : how affect enhances and disrupts mathematics performance in adolescence and young adulthood / Mark H. Ashcraft and Nathan O. Rudig
• Risky behavior in adolescents : the role of the developing brain / Adriana Galván
• Affective motivators and experience in adolescents' development of health-related behavior patterns / Sandra L. Schneider and Christine M. Caffray
• Judgment and decision making in adolescence : separating intelligence from rationality / Keith E. Stanovich, Richard F. West, and Maggie E. Toplak
• A fuzzy trace theory of adolescent risk taking : beyond self-control and sensation seeking / Christian F. Chick and Valerie F. Reyna
• Paradoxes of the adolescent brain in cognition, emotion, and rationality / Valerie F. Reyna and Michael R. Dougherty.