The Brain
This is about the age when the brain is fully developed in both men and women.
What is 25 years old?
This theory is the dominant psychosocial development theory in modern psychology. (Person who made it)
What is Erikson’s Theory of Psychosocial Development?
This theory is the dominant cognitive development theory in modern psychology. (Person who made it)
What is Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development
This theory is the dominant moral development theory in modern psychology. (Person who made it)
What is Kohlberg’s theory of Moral Development?
The part of the brain is responsible for decision-making and impulse control in adolescence.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
One of the most prevalent psychosocial stages in adolescence that regards personal identity.
What is Identity Vs Role Confusion?
The most prevalent cognitive developmental stages in adolescence that regards higher order thinking
What is the Formal Operational Stage?
The level of moral development associated with adolescence (2 answers accepted).
What is the conventional level? / What is the postconventional level?
This neurotransmitter, associated with pleasure and reward, shows increased activity in the adolescent brain
What is dopamine?
The essential question in the Identity vs Role Confusion stage.
What is “Who am I?”
Think abstractly, reason hypothetically, engage in complex problem-solving
What are skills that adolescents have in the formal operational stage?
The stage associated with adolescence in the conventional level that involves understanding rules and following them.
What is the Law and Order moral stage?
This brain region is primarily responsible for regulating emotions and develops faster than areas responsible for decision-making.
What is the Limbic System?
The number of stages in Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development
What is 8 stages?
Heightened self-consciousness, think you are the center of attention.
What is adolescent egocentrism?
The stage associated with adolescence in the postconventional level that involves viewing laws and rules in a more complex way that serves the people.
What is the social contract stage?
Part of the brain associated with fear, anxiety, and “fight-or-flight” response.
What is the amygdala?
Uncertainty about future, low self-esteem, difficulty forming relationships, potential mental health issues
What is failing the Identity vs Role Confusion Stage?
The belief that everyone pays particular attention to what you do (judgemental / uplifting)
What is imaginary audience?
Famous ethical dilemma created by Kohlberg where one must choose whether to obey the law or not
What is the Heinz Dilemma?