A small organ about the size of a pea that influences body growth.
What is pituitary gland?
100
The point at which a young teen has developed the biological potential to reproduce.
What is sexual maturation?
100
The most pervasive trait of ten to 15 year olds.
What is egocentrism?
100
He developed eight psychosocial stages in which humans develop through throughout their entire life span.
Who is Erik Erikson?
100
The strength of one's belief in one's own ability to complete tasks and reach goals.
What is self efficacy?
200
This gland sits on top of each kidney and manufactures adrenaline.
What is the adrenal glands?
200
The age that 88 percent of girls and 83 percent of boys reach puberty.
What is the age of 14?
200
The belief that everyone's attention is centered on young adolescents when they are in the presence of others.
What is an imaginary audience?
200
He developed a theory termed Identity Status Theory that suggested four stages of identity formation experienced by most teens.
Who is James Marcia?
200
This is associated with the transition to middle school.
What is a loss of status?
300
This gland is located in the throat and produces hormones that are responsible for physical growth.
What is the thyroid gland?
300
This term refers to the fusing of the vertebra.
What is ossification?
300
This aspect of egocentrism causes young adolescents to believe that no one has ever experienced anything that is even remotely similar to them.
What is a personal fable?
300
She developed the Self-Perception Profile for Adolescents, a tool to determine how adolescents form their self-concept.
Who is Susan Harter?
300
This term refers to an emotional trait of a young adolescence when they are experimenting and exploring.
What is fickleness?
400
Gland located in the brain that controls all other endocrine organs
What is the hypothalamus?
400
This term is coupled with females attaining a specific body weight.
What is manarche?
400
Term refers to the awareness of how others view him.
What is pygmalion self?
400
This stage of emotional development describes young adolescents as needing to establish an adult independence while secretly desiring adult protection and security.
What is Independence vs security?
400
Is considered to be the most important aspect in predicting and attaining adult success.
What is emotional intelligence?
500
A system that includes all of the glands of the body and the hormones produced by those glands.
What is the endocrine system.
500
This developmental term refers to uneven intellectual, physical, and emotional development.
What is asynchronous development?
500
the concept you develop about yourself that evolves over the course of your life
What is a personal identity?
500
Three domains to which young adolescents ascribe as the most valued.
What is physical appearance, social acceptance, and athletic prowess?
500
This psychologist outlined seven interpersonal and intrapersonal traits as being directly related to emotional intelligence and critical elements in how students learn.