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Cognitive Development
Moral Development
Social Development
Identity Formation
Motor Development
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Why do teens suffer from peer pressure more during their adolescent years?
Teens spend more time with their peers than they did when they were younger.
100
Why do teens suffer from peer pressure more during their adolescent years?
Teens spend more time with their peers than they did when they were younger.
100
Peers help to develop what for most adolescents?
Social problem solving skills, empathy, and social signals.
100
The process of adjusting to a new culture.
What is Acculturation?
100
The type of motor skill in which boys tend to perform better than girls.
What are Gross Motor Skills?
200
At what stage in moral development do adolescent's morals relate to the approval of others?
Conventional
200
A stage of active exploration coupled with low commitment to a particular identity. This is an interesting, exciting, and potentially dangerous time for an adolescent that often leads to conflict with parents or other authority figures. 
What is Identity Moratorium?
200
The factor that contributes greatly to the development of an Adolescence's motor skills.
What is Nurture over Nature?
300
Due to longtime exposure to the more complex cognitive functions teen's in the late stages of puberty begin to focus on___________?
Concerns of philosophy and the future.
300
What trends are seen in teens from immigrated families who decide to over Americaniz?
They tend to be in more high risk peer groups.
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The status of adolescents who have not made a commitment to a particular identity. A youth who has not yet considered college or job prospects, for example, could be said to be in the "________" status with respect to his professional identity. 
What is Identity Diffusion?
300
During adolescence the ________ shifts to make the brain adjust to the body?
What is Center of Gravity?
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What is the major change in cognitive process that occurs in adolescence?
The ability to think systematically.
400
Name the first stage of Kohlberg's theory on moral development and describe it.
Pre conventional morality Children think in terms of external authority. Rules are absolute; acts are wrong because they are punished or right because they are rewarded.
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What is the adaption process?
Assimilation Equilibrium Accommodation
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Is said to occur when the adolescent, having had the opportunity to closely explore an identity, chooses that identity with a high degree of commitment.
What is Identity Achievement?
400
The type of motor skill that Girls tend to perform better in than guys.
What are Fine Motor Skills?
500
What tends to decrease in teens as they grow older and is usually taken a sign that they are maturing in a cognitive sense?
Teens tend to handle delayed gratification better later in puberty.
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Name the 3rd and final stage of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral development and describe it.
Post conventional morality Moral thinking involves working out a personal code of ethics or self accepted moral principle. Acceptance of rules is less rigid----one might not comply with some of the society’s rules if they conflict with personal ethics.
500
How do social encounters alter one's self identity?
Answers may vary.
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involves committing to an identity prematurely without exploration or choice. This might occur, for example, when traditions are compulsory or parents are insistent on a particular identity, "foreclosing" conscious choice by the adolescent.
What is Identity Foreclosure?
500
The gender that tends to develop earlier in terms of cognitive reasoning.
What are Females?