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You Have Been Appointed to Design a Program for Youth

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You have been appointed to design a program for youth who are not college-bound. How would you help these adolescents make the transition from high school to work? What components would be important to include in this program?


Definitions:

Cognitive Development

The study of how thinking, problem solving, and intelligence change as individuals grow from infancy through adulthood.

Egocentric

Characterized by an individual's inability to differentiate between their own perspective and another person's perspective, often focusing primarily on their own thoughts and feelings.

Piaget

A psychologist best known for his theory of cognitive development that describes how children construct a mental model of the world.

Formal Operations

The final stage of cognitive development (according to Piaget), characterized by the ability to think abstractly, logically, and systematically.

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