Risk-Taking & Emotions
This emotional state can increase risky behavior because people act without thinking.
What is high emotional arousal?
a period of identity development during which the adolescent is exploring alternatives.
What is a crisis?
This part of the brain is responsible for balance, coordination, and movement.
What is the cerebellum?
This term describes how teens often focus heavily on themselves and how others see them.
What is adolescent egocentrism?
Teens in different cultures may experience puberty at different ages due to genetics, nutrition, and environmental factors. This shows that physical development can be influenced by
What is culture / cultural factors?
Teens are more likely to take risks when this group is watching them.
What are peers?
a personal investment in identity.
What is Commitment?
This process is when the brain removes unused connections to become more efficient.
What is synaptic pruning?
This concept explains why teens feel like everyone is watching and judging them.
What is the imaginary audience?
The cultural norms, values, and expectations teens grow up with can shape how they form their sense of self and choose their future goals.
What is cultural influence?
This part of the brain is highly active in teens and drives emotions and reward-seeking
What is the amygdala?
those who are in the midst of a crisis, but their commitments are either absent or vaguely defined.
What is identity moratorium?
This process strengthens brain connections by adding a fatty layer that speeds up signals.
What is myelination?
This belief makes teens think their experiences are unique and no one else understands them.
What is the personal fable?
This term describes the cultural celebration or event that marks the transition from childhood to adulthood.
What is a rite of passage?
This brain area, responsible for decision-making and self-control, develops later in life.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
an enduring aspect of the self that includes a sense of membership in an ethnic group and the attitudes and feelings related to that membership.
What is ethnic identity?
This type of thinking, developed in adolescence, allows people to think about possibilities and abstract ideas.
What is formal operational thinking?
This type of thinking can lead teens to believe they are invincible and nothing bad will happen to them
What is personal fable?
This type of culture values independence and personal achievement
What is individualistic culture?
According to psychology, teens take more risks because the reward system develops faster than this system.
What is the cognitive control system
individuals who have not yet experienced a crisis (explored meaningful alternatives) or made any commitments.
What is Identity diffusion?
This cognitive skill helps you think about your own thinking.
What is metacognition?
This psychologist introduced the concept of adolescent egocentrism.
Who is David Elkind?
This type of culture values group harmony, family loyalty, and community over individual goals
What is collectivist culture?