Adolescent Egocentrism
The belief that everyone's attention is centered on young adolescents when they are in the presence of others
What is an Imaginary Audience?
The task of adolescents is to construct this
What is Personal Identity?
This plays a major role in the well-being of individuals and directly relates to their success, achievement, and overall mental health
What is Self-esteem?
A display of extreme emotional highs and lows over a short period of time
What is Moodiness?
The system of the human body that becomes fully engaged and active during puberty
What is the Endocrine System?
The young adolescent always feels like these are on them
What are Eyes?
The acceptance of an identity imposed by others without extensive exploration of other possible alternatives
What is Identity Foreclosure?
Young adolescents with self-confidence are more likely to do this in the classroom
What is Participate?
The overreaction by young adolescents to events such as running out of cereal or not having clean clothes
What is Sense of Crisis?
The small organ about the size of a garden pea located at the base of the brain
What is Pituitary?
This involves an artificially elevated sense of uniqueness
What is a Personal Fable?
The psychologist who expanded on Erickson's work by suggesting four stages of identity formation experienced by most teens
Who is James Marcia?
The young adolescent who has learned that they can perform successfully in many areas build up this trait
What is Confidence?
The exploration of new ventures and then quickly losing interest
What is Fickleness?
This is located in the throat, to produce hormones that are responsible for physical growth
What is the Thyroid Gland?
This is what adults should do to help young teens
What is Listening?
The fifth stage of development in Erickson's life stages
What is Identity vs. Identity Confusion?
This mental health condition is linked to those with low self-esteem
What is Depression?
The acting upon their thoughts without thinking through the consequences of their actions
What is Impulsive?
The part of the body that plays an important role in the physical development and behavior of adolescents, especially boys
What are the Adrenal Glands?
The belief that nothing bad can happen to the young adolescent
What is Bulletproof?
The works of these two psychologists have been used to explain how personal identity is developed and achieved
Who are Erickson & Marcia?
These psychologists cited the areas of endeavor to be closely associated with the self-esteem of young adolescents
Who are Beane & Lipka?
This is exacerbated by the loss of control over one's environment, difficulties in finding the status in relationships, and living in an unstable family
What is Stress?
These are stimulated by the pituitary to create the sexual traits of the maturing male and female
What are the Gonads?