Physical Growth
Rapid increases in height and weight
What are growth spurts?
What is gray matter?
Independence that includes personal responsibility and decision making
What is autonomy?
This is a feeling of being incapable of being defeated or having anything bad happen
What is invincibility?
Trying to do many things at the same time
What is multitasking?
Physical growth of males continues until around this age
What is age 21?
Two areas that are not fully developed in early adolescence
What are regulation of emotions and impulse control?
The type of relationships that take on more importance at this age
What are peer relationships?
Many 15/16 year olds are likely to engage in this
What is high-risk behavior?
The physical transformation from a child to an adult capable of reproduction
What is puberty?
A term that means when someone believes everyone is watching them
What is imaginary audience?
Teens move into this Piaget stage
What is Formal Operational stage?
This is changing the way people interact
What is the availability of digital communication?
Scientists think this may play a role in risk-taking behaviors
What is continued brain development
Thinking critically about one's own thinking processes
What is metacognition?
In addition to changes in size, hormone shifts trigger this
What is sexual development?
This regulates emotions and impulse control
What is prefrontal cortex?
The influence of peers, combined with the ability to think more critically, can lead to this
What is questioning or rejecting views/values of parents?
This is acting in contradiction to a person's stated beliefs or values
What is hypocrisy?
Part of the brain responsible for emotional reactions, such as anger
What is amygdala?
The pituitary gland signals to the endocrine system to release this
What are hormones?
Thinking in a way that distorts and inflates their opinions of themselves and their own importance
What is personal fable?
The ability to bounce back after defeat or a setback
What is resilience?
This is the stage where teens are just beginning to make moral decisions based on universal principles
What is postconventional morality?
The lack of simultaneous occurrence
What is asynchrony?