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Physical Growth and Development
Cognitive
Development
Social-Emotional Development
Moral Development
100
The physical transformation from a child to an adult capable of reproducton.
What is puberty?
100
Trying to do many things at the same time.
What is multitasking?
100
An independence that includes personal responsibility and decision making.
What is autonomy?
100
Being able to bounce back after a defeat or set back.
What is resilience?
200
Rapid increases in height and weight.
What are growth spurts?
200
To think critically about a person's own thinking.
What is metacognition?
200
Being able to bounce back after a defeat or setback.
What is resilience?
200
When one feels incapable of being defeated or having anything bad happen.
What is invincibility?
300
When body parts grow at different rates.
What is asynchrony?
300
The links between brain cells, can be strengthened through activities that repeatedly stimulate the brain.
What are neural connections?
300
These are teens who define who they are.
What are independent individuals?
300
This kind of development undergoes major changes during the teen years.
What is moral development?
400
Focusing primarily on one's own concerns.
What is egocentrism?
400
During the teen years, some kids begin to thing long-term, while others tend to think in ways that can distort and inflate their opinion of themselves and their own importance. For instance, they may believe that they are on their way to becoming a film star or a major league baseball player.
What is a personal fable?
400
As these skills develop, young teens begin to question who they are.
What are abstract thinking skills?
400
This kind of thinking includes thinking about ideas and concepts and connecting feelings with thoughts.
What is abstract thinking?
500
This ususally begins with hands and feet.
What is growth?
500
Younger teens are just beginning to develop these.
What are abstract thinking skills?
500
A teen's independence of his/her parents.
What is personal identity?
500
This kind of thinking includes thinking about things that are actually experienced.
What is concrete thinking?