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61.Which of the following is the most accurate statement regarding processing speed in adolescence and young adulthood?

a.By the time most adolescents reach their mid-teenage years, their processing speed is equivalent to that of a young adult.

b.Processing speed actually begins to slow down during late adolescence, and is much slower in early adulthood.

c.The processing speed of an adolescent is much slower than that of a young adult.

d.Processing speed for both adolescents and young adults is much slower than it is for children just prior to puberty.

62.Which statement describes the development of processing speed between ages 6 and 23?

a.Time needed to respond decreases at a consistent rate.

b.Time needed to respond decreases for the first seven years and then levels off.

c.Time needed to respond is constant for the first years and then decreases significantly.

d.Time needed to respond increases at a consistent rate.

63.As your authors note, processing speed improve significantly between childhood and adolescence. Which of the following physical factors helps explain some of this change?

a.An increase in myelination during adolescence allows nerve impulses to travel more rapidly, and this allows for faster and more efficient processing of information.

b.The growth of the amygdalae and hippocampi are both maximized in early adolescence, which enhances the speed of data processing.

c.Hemispheric specialization, which refers to the combined manner in which both halves of the brain simultaneously deal with information, does not begin until puberty.

d.A thickening of the corpus callosum occurs during puberty, and this allows for neural impulses to be sent simultaneously to all four lobes of the cerebrum. This, in turn, drastically enhances processing speed.

64.Which of the following words best encapsulates why adolescents become more adept at problem solving and specific skill mastery as compared to young children?

a.scaffoldingc.experience

b.analysisd.metamemory

65.A problem-solving strategy that tends to be very fast and require little effort, but that does not guarantee a successful solution to a problem, is a(n) ________.

a.mnemonicc.algorithm

b.means-end analysisd.heuristic

66.A child’s attempt to solve a problem is to ________ as an adolescent’s attempt to solve that same problem is to ________.

a.heuristics; analysisc.approximation; specificity

b.experience; noveltyd.algorithms; hypotheses

67.You and a friend argue over who is the best golfer in the world. Which of your responses would represent an ad hominem argument?

a.“Everyone knows that it is Tiger Woods.”

b.“I am right, you are wrong, end of story!”

c.“I think that the winner of the last big tournament is the best.”

d.“You just like Tiger Woods because you do not know how to golf.”

68.“Those who cannot attack the thought will attack the thinker.” This oft-stated maxim neatly summarizes a(n) ________ argument.

a.ad ignorantiamc.heuristic

b.ad populumd.ad hominem

69.In American politics, candidates for office often resort to attacking each other rather than debating the issues that are most salient to the voting public. This political “smearing” of one’s opponent is an example of the use of ________ arguments.

a.catastrophizingc.extension fallacy

b.ad hominemd.“appeal to scare”

70.Weinstock and his colleagues (2008) found that adolescents are better than children at detecting flaws in arguments, and that ________ arguments were the easiest to detect at both ages.

a.ad populumc.ad ignorantiam

b.ad hominemd.ad liberitum