Endocrine System
Influencing Factors--Puberty
Emotional Traits
Self-Esteem
Implications
100
This is a small organ positioned at the back of the brain that influences body growth.
What is the pituitary gland?
100
This influencing factor of puberty happens when the proper health through diet causes early or late maturation.
What is nutrition?
100
This emotional trait is caused by students' ideas of justice and wanting others to convert to their way of thinking.
What is devotion to causes?
100
Adolescents will view challenges ______ if they have built confidence.
What is positively?
100
Teachers should do this since it is difficult for adolescents to sit on hard surfaces.
What is tolerate unusual postures?
200
This works with the pituitary gland to control and regulate the other endocrine organs and is located in the brain.
What is the hypothalamus?
200
This influencing factor of puberty is based on heritage, skin color, and statistics that show how some _________ develop quicker than others.
What is race?
200
This emotional trait is young adolescents use of emotional highs and lows.
What is moodiness?
200
The two sides of this contributing factor to self-esteem includes a favored position/high ranking or rejection/isolation.
What is social status?
200
Teacher should do this since students in middle school have abundant energy.
What is allow of frequent movement?
300
This is located in the throat and produces hormones in charge of physical growth, both skeletal and muscular.
What is the thyroid gland?
300
This influencing factor of puberty is when one's parents developed early or late, and his or her offspring follow a similar developmental path.
What is heredity?
300
This emotional trait of adolescents allows for them to lose interest quickly.
What is fickleness?
300
"Adolescents who have negative self-esteem often act so as to receive negative ________."
What is feedback?
300
Teachers should expect middle school students to make mistakes and minimize the aftermath since students are accompanied by an __________ ____________.
What is awkward stage?
400
This is located on top of the kidneys and suggested to have importance with the physical and behavioral maturation of adolescents.
What is the adrenal glands?
400
This factor of puberty is caused by the increase of sedentary lives causing early maturation.
What is body weight?
400
This is needed due to adolescents' thoughts shifting to their futures and what will happen.
What is need for privacy.
400
Adolescents can achieve a positive sense of self through this.
What is achievement (of an important goal or skill)?
400
Teachers need to remember that physical development does not equal __________ and ____________ maturity.
What is intellectual and emotional?
500
Both of these are responsible for the sexual and physical maturation of adolescents, and each gender's has a specific name: ____________ and _______________.
What is gonads (male) and ovaries (female)?
500
"Even _______ __________ can have a detrimental effect on physical maturation."
What is emotional stress?
500
This trait is caused by adolescents not wanting attention drawn to their flaw, so they direct the attention at someone else, frequently causing hurt feelings.
What is sense of humor?
500
Adolescents' capabilities are different, so to help improve self-esteem, teachers should focus on one's best effort instead of _________.
What is perfection?
500
Teacher should not do this since students are trying to figure out their personal identity.
What is compare them to siblings or others?
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