Adolescents of Color Are Overrepresented at Each of the Decision-Making

question 9

True/False

Adolescents of color are overrepresented at each of the decision-making points within the juvenile justice system.

Distinguish between the types of thinking and problem-solving abilities that emerge in different developmental stages according to Piaget.

Understand the importance of object permanence in the sensory-motor stage.

Differentiate between preoperational and concrete operational stages in terms of conservation.

Identify Erikson's stages of development specific to early childhood, adolescence, and old age.

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Definitions:

Emotional Component

The aspect of a situation, experience, or decision-making process that is related to feelings, emotions, and affective states.

Conscience

An inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior.

Reason

The mental capacity to logically identify, analyze, and integrate information to form conclusions or judgments.

Cultural Relativist

Someone who believes that moral and ethical systems, which vary from culture to culture, are all equally valid and no one system is really "better" than another.