The Teen Brain
Adolescent's Social Development
Emerging Adulthood
Early Adulthood: Physical & Cognitive
Early Adulthood: Social
100
How many growth spurts are there in the teenage brain
What is two
100
An understanding of one’s unique characteristics and how they have been, are, and will be manifested across ages, situations and social roles is
What is identity
100
Impulse control, accepting responsibility, and making independent decisions are all a part of what?
What is emerging adulthood
100
What is the term used to describe age-related physical changes that have a biological basis and are universally shared and inevitable
What is primary aging
100
The capacity to engage in a supportive, affectionate relationship without losing one’s own sense of self
What is intimacy
200
the part of the frontal lobe that is behind the forehead.
What is prefrontal cortex
200
According to Erikson, the central crisis of adolescence is
What is identity vs. role confusion
200
When does emerging adulthood occur?
What is late teens to early twenties
200
The part of the brain that regulates emotional responses
What is limbic system
200
_____ _____ includes roles, relationships, and behavior patterns
What is life structure
300
Between ages 13-15, the ____ _____ becomes thicker.
What is cerebral cortex
300
Which theorists created the identity statuses for adolescents?
What is James Marcia
300
Who argued that emerging adulthood is not necessarily a universal phase of development?
What is Jeffrey Arnett
300
At what age does the body function of vision start to decline?
What is mid-40s
300
Who believed that individuals respond psychologically to developmental tasks by creating new life structures?
What is Daniel Levinson
400
At age 17 into early adulthood, the second brain growth spurt occurs. Which two areas of the brain are focus of development?
What is cerebral cortex and frontal lobes
400
T/F: The average 19-20 year old has a more positive sense of self then he/she did from ages 8-11.
What is true
400
What are the five domains that Roisman had hypothesized for developmental tasks in emerging adults?
What is academic, friendship, conduct, work, and romantic
400
The _____ decline most in number and efficiency with age; these defend against internal threats, such as cancer cells and viruses
What is T-cells
400
This theory proposes that men value health and availability in their mates
What is parental investment theory
500
True or False: After the age of 16, qualitative shifts in cognitive functioning appear
What is False (age 15)
500
What are the three stages, according to psychologist Jean Phinney, of ethnic identity development?
What is unexamined identity, ethnic identity search, and ethnic identity achievement
500
According to Roisman, emerging adults must approach the domains of ____ and ____ differently than they did as adolescents.
What is work and romantic
500
A person who has an ____ locus of control sees themselves capable of exerting control over what happens to them
What is internal
500
Partnerships based on _____ are much more likely to endure than are those in which the partners differ markedly.
What is homogamy
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