Chapter 4
the biological event that marks the ending of childhood
What is Puberty?
Transition period between childhood and adulthood
What is adolescence?
What is an identity crisis?
a small, exclusive group of people within a larger group
What are cliques?
Prejudiced opinions concerning the way men and women should behave
What is Gender Stereotypes?
A thought process in which adolescents assume that everyone is thinking about the same thing they are—themselves!
What is self-conciousness?
Girls: Between ages 8 and 10; Boys: Between ages 9 and 16
At what age do girls/boys experience puberty?
During adolescence where thinking patterns that are characteristic of adults emerge
What is formal operational thinking?
They tended to be well groomed, good looking, outgoing, neat, fun, and adept at making others feel accepted.
Men have less of this chemical resulting in heightened aggression
Serotonin
acting in accordance with some specified authority
What is conformity?
The first menstrual period
What is menarche?
A process whereby an individual seeks to explain an often unpleasant emotion or behavior in a way that will preserve his or her self-esteem
What is rationalization?
The majority adjust fairly quickly although there are still the small majority of teens that suffer.
How many suffer from suicidal thoughts?
a mental representation of behavior that helps a child organize and categorize behaviors.
A gender schema
combining or blending traditionally male and female characteristics
What is androgynous?
Initiation Rites
What is a ceremonies or rituals in which an individual is admitted to new status or accepted into a new position?
Who said that crisis is not a normal state and when it does develop that the cause is usually a change in the external circumstances of their life and not biological
What is A.C Peterson?
This may involve running away from home, teen pregnancy, alcohol and drug abuse and underachievement.
What is juvenile delinquency?
This gender tends to express more verbal aggression
Women
building an identity is a task that is unique to adolescence
What is Erikson’s Theory of the Identity Crisis?
Margaret Mead
Who said that culture affects adolescence?
Adolescents who are seriously considering the issues but have not made a commitment on any of the important matters facing them
What is the identity of moratorium adolescents?
Over time as a way of coping with emotional stress or pain, unhappiness, or other problems a person may have.
How is anorexia nervosa is developed?
Phrases in speech such as “Kind of” or “you know”
Hedges