Human Growth and Development / Unit 9 HGD 1239 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Abstract and Relativistic Thinking
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The idea
Abstract ideas such as justice and truth gain importance in adolescence, along with relativistic thinking: seeing that many truths depend on the observer's position.
In practice
A student weighing a dress code's fairness against the class time it costs, and catching a teacher's sarcasm.
Where people slip
Seeing several dimensions at once also leads teens to question rules that seem arbitrary.
Your place on the trail
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