Question

According to information-processing explanations of cognitive development during adolescence, one of the most important reasons for advances in mental abilities is the growth of __________. Group of answer choices neural connectivity in the prefrontal cortex myelination in the brain memory capacity metacognition Flag this Question Question 2

Answer 1

Answer:Metacognition

Explanation:

Metacognition is the self awareness and control of an individual's thought and learning  process.it involves  having the perception and understanding of an information,  learning and using strategies that improve learning process, accessing whether the strategies meet the learning objective and having a recollective  memory to register the learnt information.

As children reach adolescence,  their thinking capabilities is heightened as they are more aware of themselves making them to re analyse and rethink known ideologies and beliefs . This happens because at this stage, there is a upsurge of  Metacognition  as the pre-frontal cortex of the brain responsible for executive cognitive processes and functions gets rewired and  starts to mature.