This leads young people to focus on themselves to the exclusion of others.
What is adolescent egocentrism?
100
The time between the first onrush of hormones and full adult physical development.
What is puberty?
100
A group of adolescents made up of close friends who are loyal to one another while excluding others.
What is a clique?
100
A way to measure moral thinking by having test takers rank possible solutions to moral dilemmas.
What is the Defining Issues Test (DIT)?
100
Erickson's sixth psychosocial stage that emphasizes that humans are social creatures.
What is intimacy vs. isolation?
200
An adolescent's belief that his or her thoughts, feelings, or experiences are unique, more wonderful or awful than anyone else's.
What is a personal fable?
200
The process of aging, whereby the body becomes less strong and efficient.
What is senescence?
200
An adolescent's choice of a socially acceptable way to postpone making identity-achievement decisions.
What is moratorium?
200
Thinking that is not based on thinker's personal qualities but instead based on valid facts and numbers.
What is objective thought?
200
Passion, intimacy, and commitment.
What are the 3 dimensions of love?
300
This is a term for adolescent thinking that other people who, in an adolescent's egocentric belief, are watching and taking note of his or her appearance, ideas, and behavior.
What is an imaginary audience?
300
A girl's first menstrual period, signaling that she has begun ovulation.
What is menarche?
300
Erikson's term for the fifth stage of development, in which the person tries to figure out "Who am I?" but is confused as to which of many possible roles to adapt.
What is identity vs role confusion?
300
A proposed stage of cognitive development that extends adolescent thinking by being more practical, flexible, and dialectical.
What is postformal thought?
300
Having so many possibilities that a thoughtful choice becomes difficult.
What is choice overload?
400
This is Piaget's fourth and final stage of cognitive development.
What is formal operational thought?
400
The adjustment of all the body's systems to keep physiological functions in a state of equilibrium.
What is homeostasis?
400
Repeatedly thinking and talking about past experiences.
What is rumination?
400
The ability to consider a thesis and its antithesis and arrive at a synthesis.
What is dialectical thought?
400
Living with an unrelated person--typically a romantic partner--to whom one is not married.
What is cohabitation?
500
An addictive form of self-mutilation that is most common among adolescent girls that correlates with depression and drug abuse.
What is cutting?
500
A disorder characterized by starvation, over exercising, and deprivation of vital organs.
What is anorexia nervosa?
500
Erikson's term for premature identity formation, which occurs when an adolescent adopts parents' or society's roles and values wholesale, without questioning or analysis.
What is foreclosure?
500
The tendency to undervalue, or ignore, future consequences and rewards in favor of immediate gratification.
What is delay discounting?
500
A situation in a romantic relationship wherein one person wants to address an issue and the other one refuses.