Adolescent Physical and Cognitive Development
A girl's first menstruation (period) is known as
What is Menarche?
The Personal Fable and Imaginary audience were identified by Elkind as being.
What are 2 components of adolescent egocentrism?
This peaks between the ages of 19-26.
What is physical performance?
Some research shows that traditional forms of dating have shifted to uncommitted sexual encounters known as this.
What is hooking up?
The period of rapid growth and sexual development that begins in adolescence and starts at some point between ages 8 and 14.
what is puberty?
This group is the most likely to have a negative perception of their body image.
What is adolescent females?
Recent research revealed that this parenting style was linked to lower adolescent alcohol consumption and cigarette use.
What is authoritative?
By this age, most individuals have had sexual intercourse
What is 25?
This is the transition from adolescence to adulthood – approximately 18 to 25 years of age – which involves experimentation and exploration.
What is emerging adulthood?
This type of love is a complex intermingling of different emotions – including passion, fear, anger, sexual desire, joy, and jealousy.
What is romantic love?
These are the two key hormones during puberty.
What are testosterone and estradiol?
In Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, this stage is proposed to be the fourth and final stage.
What is formal operational?
Accidents and Suicides are the two leading causes of death in this age group.
what is between 20 and 29?
Individuals with this attachment style are hesitant about getting involved in romantic relationships and once in a relationship tend to distance themselves from their partner.
What is Avoidant
During puberty, both sexes experience a rapid increase in height and weight over about 2-3 years referred to as
What is a growth spurt?
An eating disorder that involves the relentless pursuit of thinness through starvation
What is Anorexia?
Identity _____ is the status of individuals who have undergone a crisis and made a commitment.
What is Identity achievement
Stats Canada considers the following: education completion and parenting as some of the things indicative of this.
What is the transition to adulthood?
This has been proposed as a later cognitive stage, past Piaget's.
What is postformal?
These are people who are actively seeking mates. They hope to marry or remarry and may be involved in going on blind dates, seeking a partner on the internet or placing “getting personal” aids in search of a mate. They tend to be more anxious about being single.
What is involuntarily single?
The adolescent brain is maturing but also removing unused connections with this process.
What is pruning?
The development of ___________ is widely considered to be one of the central tasks of adolescence.
What is Identity or a strong and stable sense of self?
Earning a living, choosing an occupation, establishing a career, and developing in a career all contribute to our ____ _ _______ and satisfaction in life.
What is sense of purpose?
Openness and extroversion are two of the elements of this.
What is the Big 5?
The acronym for this is NEETS
what is neither employed nor in education and training?