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The Teen Brain
Adolescent's Social Development
Emerging Adulthood
Early Adulthood Physical & Cognitive
Early Adulthood:
Social
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Hypotho-deductive reasoning
What is the ability to draw conclusions from a hypothetical premise?
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A: identity
What is an understanding of one’s unique characteristics and how they change over a person’s lifespan?
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A: ages 17-22
What age range marks the early adult transition?
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A: brain development
What bodily function drastically improves and hits its peak in early adulthood?
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A: intimacy
What is the capacity to engage in a supportive, affectionate relationship, without the loss of self?
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prefrontal cortex and cerebral cortex
Which parts of the brain goes through a large growth spurt during the ages of 13-to-15 years old?
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A: a higher chance of becoming sexually active while still in school
What is true for teens that date in early adolescence, unlike their peers that delay dating?
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A: the period from late teens to early 20s, when people explore option prior to committing to adulthood
What is emerging adulthood?
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A: secondary aging
What are age-related physical changes that are due to environmental influences, such as poor health habits?
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A: assortative mating
What is the term that means someone is attracted to people that have traits similar to themselves?
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formal operational stage
According to Piaget, which stage of development do teens start to experience at age 12-16?
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A: moratorium
What stage of identity achievement is marked by a crisis in progress, but no commitment made to change this?
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A: 25
At what age do most emerging adults in United States consider themselves fully emerged into adulthood?
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A: sexually transmitted disease
What is on significant health risk for young adults, due to a higher likelihood of multiple sexual partners?
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A: adequate social support
What causes lower risk of disease, death, and depression in adults?
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: metacognitive abilities
what type of thinking do teens show around age 13-14, improving memory skills?
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A: Androgynous
What is the word to describe gender roles that include high femininity and high masculinity?
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A: cultural expectations
What extrinsic force causes emerging adults to commit to a career path and make decisions about long term romantic relationships?
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A: fluid intelligence
What is the aspect of intelligence that reflects biological processes, rather than learned processes?
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A: fatuous love
According to Sternberg, what type of love is classified by equal parts commitment and passion?
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A. ability goals B. long-term goals C. task goals D. sort-term goals
What are goals that are based on a desire for self-improvement?
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A. Identity B. Role confusion C. Identity crisis D. Identity versus role confusion
What is the stage in Erickson’s theory, in which adolescents attain a sense of who they are?
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A. Self-regulation B. Rational decision making C. Impulse control D. All of the above
What parts of cognitive development are maturing during this stage of life?
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A. Losing 10% of your body weight B. Engage in moderate physical activity every day C. Stop smoking D. All of the above
What is one small lifestyle change that can benefit your life drastically in early adulthood?
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A. Validating couples B. Volatile couples C. Avoidant couples D. Cheating couples
What type of couple is defined as a couple that would rather avoid each other in order to minimize conflict?