Growing Pains
The period following the onset of puberty during which a young person develops from a child into an adult.
What is adolescence?
The type of development is the ability to understand and think abstractly.
What is Moral Development?
This is the primary social development task of Adolescents.
What is becoming independent from the family?
This is the definition of the biological group to which an individual belongs to.
What is Gender Identity?
This country has the longest border with the US.
What is Canada?
This biological event marks the end of childhood.
What is puberty?
This is a period of time when Teens worry about who they are and experience inner conflict.
What is Identity Crisis?
This serves as a social function to fulfill closeness with others. It can also create a feeling of isolation.
What are cliques?
This is the definition of a set of behaviors that society has considered appropriate for feminine or masculine sexes.
What is Gender Role?
This creator of the classic book Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
Who is Mark Twain?
This is how G. Stanley Hall described adolescence.
What is a transition from beast to human; "stress and storm"?
This area of Personal Development is when an individual seeks to explain their unpleasant behavior or emotion in a way that doesn't affect their self-esteem.
What is Rationalization?
These are 3 problems parents face during the transition of adolescence.
What is... reluctant to let their children grow up, fears of their own age advancing, and worrying if their children are ready for life?
These are gender differences in cognitive abilities for both Men and Women.
What are Math & Visuospatial for Men and Verbal Skills for Women?
This is at least how many billion years old the Earth is.
What is 4 Billion?
These are two ways for both Boys and Girls that adolescents develop physically.
What is...
boys: growth spurt, broader shoulders, voice deepens, facial hair, more muscular.
girls: curvy, hips more apparent, fat tissue increases, first period
Marcia's view of the identity crisis included these four things.
What is moratorium, foreclosure, confused or diffused, and achievement?
This is the belief that nothing bad will happen to me and/or the rules don't apply to me.
What is the illusion of invulnerability?
These are the four theories identified with Gender Differences.
What is Biological, Psychoanalytical, Social Learning, and Cognitive-Development?
These are animals without backbones.
What is Invertebrates?
These are five tasks that an adolescent must master.
What is...
accepting one's physical makeup, develop appropriate relations, becoming emotionally independent, economically independent, deciding and preparing for a vacation, develop cognitive skills, socially responsible behavior, preparing for marriage and family, appropriate values and morals.
These are five problems Dr. David Elkind identified with adolescent development.
What is finding fault with authority figures, argumentativeness, indecisiveness, apparent hypocrisy, self-consciousness, invulnerability?
These are five events that can trigger depression in adolescence.
List 5 oversimplified generalizations about characteristics for both men & women.
What is...
Men: aggressive, independent, dominant, active, worldly, not easily hurt emotionally, decisive, not talkative, tough, less sensitive, rarely cries, logical, cruel, blunt, not nurturing
Women: not aggressive, dependent, easily influenced, submissive, passive, home-oriented, easily hurt, indecisive, talkative, gentle, sensitive to other's feelings, cries a lot, emotional, verbal, kind, tactful, nurturing.
You collect 48 pieces of Halloween candy. Your parents say you can eat 2 pieces per day, plus an extra piece on Saturdays and Sundays. How many weeks will it take to finish all of your candy?
What is 3 weeks?