The Development of Judgment and Decision Making in Children and Adolescents

Janis E. Jacobs, Paul A. Klaczynski

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Year: 2006
• eBook ISBN: 9781135633516
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
• Index: Psychology

In recent years, newspaper articles, television specials, and other media events have focused on the numerous hard decisions faced by today's youth, often pointing to teen pregnancy, drug use, and delinquency as evidence of faulty judgment. Over the past 10 years, many groups - including parents, educators, policymakers, and researchers - have become concerned about the decision-making abilities of children and adolescents, asking why they make risky choices, how they can be taught to be better decision makers, and what types of age-related changes occur in decision making. This book serves as a starting point for those interested in considering new ways of thinking about the development of these issues. The purpose is to bring together the voices of several authors who are conducting cutting-edge research and developing new theoretical perspectives related to the development of judgment and decision making.

The Development of Judgment and Decision Making in Children and Adolescents is divided into three parts:

• Part I presents three distinctive developmental models that offer different explanations of "what develops" and the relative importance of different cognitive components and experiential components that may be important for developing judgment and decision making skills.
• Part II emphasizes the emotional, cultural, and social aspects of decision making--three topics that have been influential in the adult literature on judgment and decision making but are just beginning to be explored in the developmental area.
• Part III provides three examples of research that applies developmental and decision making models to practical research questions.

This book is intended for the professional market or for graduate courses on decision making or cognitive or social development.

Author Index

A

Aas, H., 160, 171, 176

Acredolo, C., 83, 101

Adam, M.B., 90, 105

Adelman, H.S., 283, 300

Adler, N.E., 255, 266, 269, 271, 272, 274

Agnoli, F., 161, 178

Ajzen, I., 82, 92, 101, 102

Albarracin, D., 7, 35

Alberti, E.T., 47, 72

Alexander, C., 284, 298

Alleyne, E., 93, 94, 105

Almeida, D., 148, 155

Altman-Palm, N., 272, 274

Ambuel, B., 255, 256, 271, 274, 283, 298

Amsel, E., 65, 75, 119, 124, 127, 132, 134, 135, 140, 149, 150, 151, 153, 154, 155, 156

Andersen, C., 43, 52, 65, 75, 119, 149, 155

Anderson, J.R., 5, 15, 22, 35

Anderson, N.H., 141, 156

Anderson, R.M., 92, 104

Aneja, A., 54, 56, 60, 74

Anes, M.D., 90, 106

Arkes, H.R., 40, 41, 50, 66, 69, 72

Arnett, J.J., 119, 120, 153, 284, 299

Arnold, M.L., 197, 200, 210

Atkins, J.L., 160, 178

Atman, C., 344, 345

Austin, G.A., 329, 333

Austin, J.T., 305, 323

Aus...

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• I COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACHES TO JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING
• II CONTEXTUAL INFLUENCES ON DECISION MAKING
• III DECISION MAKING IN THE REAL WORLD
• Author Index
• Subject Index