The Teen Brain
Adolescent’s Social Development
Emerging Adulthood
Early Adulthood: Physical & Cogn
Early Adulthood: Social -
100
A growth spurt in the brain where teens become able to better conduct abstract thought and reflect on cognitive processes.
What is the 13-to-15 spurt?
100
Antisocial behavior that includes law-breaking
What is delinquency
100
Controlling impulses, accepting responsibilities, making independent decisions
What are characteristics of emerging adulthood?
100
Learning to walk (if able bodied), going through puberty, and the graying of hair
What is primary againg
100
Erikson's theory that a person must find a life partner outside of their family to avoid being isolated from society.
What is intimacy vs isolation
200
This is where logic and planning become the focus of development.
What happens during the 17-to-19 spurt?
200
Looking at a situation from another person's perspective
What is role-taking?
200
Changes are unique and specific to the person and their environment. Changes are universal
What is the difference between primary and secondary aging?
200
People in their 20's and 30's have; more muscle mas, maximum bone calcium, more brain mass, better senses, and more efficient immune systems.
Why are people in their 20's and 30's able to perform better than younger or older people in physical tasks?
200
Men do more work around the house after marriage.
What is true about married men?
300
Piaget's fourth stage of cognitive development, where adolescents learn to reason logically about abstract thoughts.
What is formal operational stage?
300
Erikson describes a theory in which adolescents grasp an understanding of who they are and their unique characteristics and how they manifested over time.
What is the identity-versus-role confusion stage?
300
Women who develop feelings of anxiety, depression, shame, and low-self esteem due to believing they cannot leave a relationship.
What are the effects of intimate partner "abuse" on women?
300
The brain is devoted to logic and planning, and emotional control that begins around age 18.
What is the second (of two) major brain growth spurts?
300
A couple who has different views on parental beliefs but never attempt to persuade the other to conform to their views to minimize conflict.
What is an avoidant couple
400
Located behind the forehead and is responsible for executive processing.
What is PFC (pre-frontal cortex)
400
As they get older, children begin to define themselves more and more by what they believe and feel and less about what they look like.
What is increasing self understanding?
400
developmental tasks that emerging adults must work at are: academics, friendships, conduct, work, and romantic
What is the five domains of emerging adulthood?
400
In some parts of Africa people believe that if they get sick someone has wished this upon them.
What is "external" locus of control
400
research has shown that partners who cohabitate before marriage are less satisfied with their marriage than those who wait until after marriage
What is true about cohabiting before marriage?
500
Information processing skills that enable us to consciously control and organize thought processes
What is executive processing?
500
A student is in his second year studying biochemistry in college and still is uncertain of what he wants to become a biochemist or study music.
What is identity moratorium?
500
Two coworkers have a history of issues with each other, now when one see's the other she keeps moving to not engage in confrontation and ignore's the comments she hears as she walks away.
What is self-efficacy?
500
A woman who has been a victim of sexual abuse by men in her life develop a hatred of men and are often scared when they come in contact with men.
What is personality disorder?
500
the balance and conflicts derived between a person's personal roles (work, school, father, board member etc...), and their relationships with people.
What is Levinson's concept of life structure?
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