Chapter 9
This part of the brain, which is still developing in adolescents, regulates emotion and other behaviors and includes parts like the hippocampus, the amygdala and thalamus.
What is the Limbic System?
These are culture based markers of adulthood that teens go through depending on their own culture.
What are rites of passage?
This characteristic of post-formal thought points us to pragmatic solutions.
What is Practical?
This is Erikson's stage of development for young adulthood.
What is intimacy vs. isolation?
These types of disorders are common in adolescence and can cause health problems including anemia, muscle loss and fatigue.
What are eating disorders?
In Marcia's identity statuses, this is when teens have high exploration and high commitment.
What is identity achievement?
This is a chart to help young adults determine when to do tasks based on two dimensions: urgency and importance.
What is Eisenhower's Matrix?
This is when young adults struggle with many of the expectations of emerging adulthood.
What is a quarter-life crisis?
This part of the brain triggers the pituitary gland to release hormones that stimulate the testes in males and the ovaries in females leading to the physical and sexual changes in puberty.
What is the hypothalamus?
This is the average age that someone who is LGBTQ+ starts coming out.
What is 19.6 years of age?
These are the five challenges of young adulthood according to Arnett's theory of emerging adulthood.
What are identity exploration, instability, self-focus, feeling in-between, and being in an age of possibilities?
This is the broad term describing both racial and ethnic aspects of identity.
What is Ethnoracial identity?
This stage of cognitive development is the final stage that occurs in adolescents and allows for abstract and hypothetical thought.
What is the formal operational stage?
This is a small group of friends from 3 to 12 people.
What is a clique?
These are the six components of Sexuality.
What are beliefs, feelings, behaviors, sexual attraction, gender identity, and sexual activity?
These are the dimensions of successful emerging adulthood.
These three parts of the life affect and influence cognitive development.
This parenting style has high levels of warmth and structure, but as children become teens, the parents allow for more autonomy.
What is an authoritative parenting style?
These are the 4 E's of young adulthood.
What are enlisting in the military, enrolling in post-high-school educational program, being employed or spending time exploring possibilities?
These are the three components of fulfilling romantic relationships.
What are intimacy, passion and commitment?