Vocabulary
The process in which one seeks to explain or justify an often unpleasant emotion or behavior in a way that preserves self-esteem is called this.
What is rationalization?
This Swiss developmental psychologist described emerging abstract thinking patterns as formal operations thinking.
Who is Jean Piaget?
Between guys and girls, this group matures earlier and hits their growth spurt before the other.
Who are girls?
Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia are examples of these.
What are eating disorders?
According to Erik Erikson, the adolescent period is defined by this crisis.
What is identity crisis?
Kohlberg's three tiered development model described this type of development. (Choose from physical, cognitive, moral, and social development).
When one reaches adolescence, this part of the brain shrinks, making adolescents impulsive.
What is the frontal lobe?
A small inclusive group within a larger group is called this.
What is a clique?
A girl's first menstrual cycle is called this.
What is Menarche?
This theorist compared being an adolescent to being a caged animal.
Who is G. Stanley Hall?
These two subjects (out of Mathematics, Literature, Social Studies, and Science) depend on formal operations thinking to understand at a complex level.
What are Mathematics and Science?
Between guys and girls, this group grows more during their growth spurt.
Who are guys?
This is the condition in which body parts mature or grow unevenly.
What is asynchrony?
This theorist argued that adolescence was a freeing time and that the crises one experienced were brought about by our industrialized society. She observed Samoan culture very closely and her observations impacted her opinions on adolescence.
Who is Margaret Mead?
When one acts in accordance with specified authority, they do this. (Compliance with standards, law, or peer ideals)
What is conform?
What are property crimes?
This is the eating disorder in which a person refuses to eat based on a distorted self image.
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
This man pioneered the theory of adolescence in 1904.
Who is G. Stanley Hall?
Having a structured classification of a group according to ability, economic status, or social standing is this.
What is a hierarchy?
This biological event, defined by the hormonal trigger that leads to internal and external changes in the body, marks the end of childhood and the beginning of adolescence.
What is puberty?
Frustration at the failings of adults combined with the new found idealism of adolescence results in this complex developing in adolescents. The complex is the idea that the adolescent will be the one to save the flawed world.
What is the Messiah Complex?