"Cognitive Development in Adolescence": HTML5 Crossword

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3. Adolescents can create _ events and logically reason about them. (12)
4. Confidence in ability to adapt thinking. (12)
6. The ability to effectively direct thinking in different areas, manage attention, reduce interfering thoughts, and be flexible. (9,7)
7. The heightened self-consciousness of adolescents. (10,11)
9. The hypothetical- _ is the concept that adolescents have the cognitive ability to develop hypotheses about solving problems. (9,9)
10. In adolescence, there is improvement in _ , consisting of high-level cognitive processes linked to the prefrontal cortex’s development. (9,8)
11. Adolescents’ belief that others are as interested in them as themselves and use attention-getting behavior from the desire to be noticed. (9,8)
13. _ plays a key role in adolescents’ decision making. (6,7)
15. Adolescence is an important transition period in the development of _. (8,8)

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1. Begin thinking about thinking. (13)
2. An adolescent’s sense of uniqueness and invincibility. (8,5)
5. At age 11 children enter the last stage of cognitive development (Piaget’s theory), but only 1 out of 3 is a _ thinker. (6,11)
8. Being aware the options and alternatives are available and able to adapt to situations. (9,11)
12. More _ thinking. (8)
14. Thoughts full of _ and possibilities. (8)