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Intro to Adolescence
Physical Development
Cognitive Development
Social and Emotional Development
Adolescent Grab-Bag!
100
This form of research is quick and easy, but participants tend to answer in ways they believe are socially desirable.
What is survey research?
100
Chemical substances secreted by the endocrine glands.
What are hormones?
100
Knowledge of mental strategies, reflective thoughts, a skill set that can be taught in school.
What is metacognition?
100
This period of adolescence is characterized by the greatest shifts in mood.
What is early adolescence?
100
This hormone is associated with body fat in girls and testosterone in boys.
What is Leptin?
200
When two factors have inverse relationships with each other.
What is a negative correlation?
200
This condition is characterized by the early appearance of secondary sexual characteristics in boys and girls.
What is precocious puberty?
200
This brain region develops quickly and is associated with emotion.
What is the amygdala?
200
Behavioral style or characteristic way or responding to the world.
What is temperament?
200
Observable characteristics that are the result of genetic information and the environment.
What is a phenotype?
300
Examples include heart rate, blood-pressure, and even brain waves.
What are physiological measures?
300
Symptoms of this problem include amenorrhea, osteoporosis, and disordered eating.
What is the female athlete triad?
300
A form of thought that seeks to come up with multiple, creative solutions to problems.
What is divergent thinking?
300
This gender consistently has lower self-esteem than the other, and the gap between them widens in adolescence.
What is female?
300
The ability to hone in on one source of information while tuning out others.
What is selective attention?
400
In experimental research, this is the variable that is of interest, which is thought to be impacted with manipulation of the independent variable.
What is the dependent variable?
400
An explanation for development that takes into account how genetic/hereditary information combines with the environment.
What is epigenesis?
400
The adolescent's perception that they are the object of everyone's attention.
What is the imaginary audience?
400
James Marcia describes the search for identity through these two concepts.
What is crisis and commitment?
400
This acronym stands for the Big 5 personality traits.
What is OCEAN?
500
In Bronfenbrenner's Ecological theory, this level of the environment accounts for interactions and connections amongst microsystems.
What is the mesosystem?
500
This past time is associated with improved self-image, decreased stress levels and less depression in adolescents.
What is exercise?
500
The ability to evaluate the logic of verbal statements without referencing real-world circumstances?
What is propositional thought?
500
The match between temperament and one's environment.
What is goodness of fit?
500
This identity status is characterized by an ongoing search for purpose, meaning, or goals; one is not yet invested or committed to these choices.
What is identity moratorium?