Socioemotional
True or false: Parent-adolescent conflict increases in early adolescence.
True
This is the part of adolescent egocentrism that involves feeling one is the center of everyone's attention and sensing that one is on stage.
Imaginary Audience
This theorist first understood the importance of questioning identity in understanding adolescent development.
Erik Erikson
This is the period of rapid physical maturation involving hormonal and bodily changes.
Puberty
An enduring, basic aspect of the self that includes a sense of membership in an ethnic group and the attitudes and feelings related to that membership.
Ethnic Identity
A significant increase in media use occurs during this age.
11-14 years old
These are the most common reasons that that students drop out of high school.
School related, economic, family-related, peer-related, and personal.
This theorist stressed the influence of adolescent friendships.
Harry Stack Sullivan
True or False: The mean minutes of activity per day increases with age during the adolescent years.
False.
An adolescent who breaks the law or engages in behavior that is considered illegal.
Juvenile delinquent
This problem is more likely to occur in adolescents than children, but also more likely in adults than adolescents.
Depression
The American high school is preparing students for this by giving them skills in computer use, effective written and oral communication, high-level reading comprehension, and working in diverse groups.
The workplace
This theorist argues that the most important cognitive change in adolescence is improvement in executive functioning.
Deanna Kuhn
These disorders become increasingly common among adolescents, and include anorexia and bulimia.
Eating disorders
A hormone associated in boys with the development of genitals, an increase in height, and a change in voice.
Testosterone
These are the four stages of "Identity."
Diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, and achievement
A moral education, or the moral atmosphere that is created in every school, is provided through this kind of curriculum.
Hidden curriculum
David Elkind described how this governs how adolescents think about social matters, and includes the imaginary audience and personal fable.
Adolescent egocentrism
These are the three leading causes of death in adolescence.
Accidents, homicide, and suicide.
A sleep inducing hormone that is produced in the brain's pineal gland.
Melatonin
This is a ceremony or ritual that marks an individual's transition from one status to another.
Rite of passage
This form of education promotes social responsibility and service to the community.
Service learning
Piaget's theory of cognitive development proposes that during adolescence, children develop this quality of thinking.
Abstract
This is the master gland that produces hormones that stimulate other glands.
Pituitary
The circumstance of transitioning from the top position (grade) in a school to the lowest position.
Top-dog phenomenon