The development of judgment and decision making in children and adolescents / edited by Janis E. Jacobs, Paul A. Klaczynski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jacobs, Janis E.

Klaczynski, Paul A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judgment in children.

Decision making in children.

Judgment in adolescence.

Decision making in adolescence.

Physical Description:

xiv, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005.

Summary:

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 of this well-timed volume is to bring together the voices of several leading 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 and experiential components that may be important for developing judgment and decision-making skills. The emphasis of Part II is on 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 apply developmental and decision-making models to practical research questions.

The Development of Judgment and Decision Making in Children and Adolescents is intended for researchers interested in decision making or developmental psychology, practitioners, or for graduate courses on decision making or cognitive or social development.

Contents:

Part I Cognitive Developmental Approaches to Judgment and Decision Making 1

1 The Development of Self-Regulated Decision Making / James P. Byrnes 5

2 Metacognition and Cognitive Variability: A Dual-Process Model of Decision Making and Its Development / Paul A. Klaczynski 39

3 Risky Decision Making in Childhood and Adolescence: A Fuzzy-Trace Theory Approach / Valerie F. Reyna, Mary B. Adam, Kristin M. Poirier, Craig W. LeCroy, Charles J. Brainerd 77

Commentary: Development and Decisions / Keith E. Stanovich 107

Part II Contextual Influences on Decision Making 115

4 Anticipating and Avoiding Regret as a Model of Adolescent Decision Making / Eric Amsel, Troy Bowden, Jennifer Cottrell, James Sullivan 119

5 "Everyone Else Is Doing It": Relations Between Bias in Base-Rate Estimates and Involvement in Deviant Behaviors / Janis E. Jacobs, Kristen E. Johnston 157

6 Culture and the Construction of Concepts of Personal Autonomy and Democratic Decision Making / Charles C. Helwig 181

7 Not All Hurried Children Are the Same: Children's Participation in Deciding on and Planning Their After-School Activities / Mary Gauvain, Susan M. Perez 213

Commentary: Lessons From a Life-Span Perspective to Adolescent Decision Making / Cynthia A. Berg 241

Part III Decision Making in the Real World 251

8 The Role of Consultants in Adolescents' Decision Making: A Focus on Abortion Decisions / Laura L. Finken 255

9 Crime, Competence, and Culpability: Adolescent Judgment in the Justice System / Elizabeth Cauffman, Jennifer Woolard 279

10 Setting Goals and Making Plans: How Children and Adolescents Frame Their Decisions / Kathleen M. Galotti 303

Commentary: The Development of Thinking / David Moshman 327

Afterword: Development of and in Behavioral Decision Research / Baruch Fischhoff 335.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

080584256X

OCLC:

55738071