Adolescence Flashcards
Period of rapid physical maturation involving hormonal and bodily changes that occurs primarily during early adolescence.
A. Puberty
B. Precocious Puberty
C. Menarche
D. Spermarche
A. Puberty
the term used to describe the very early onset and rapid progression of puberty.
A. Puberty
B. Precocious Puberty
C. Menarche
D. Spermarche
B. Precocious Pubert
A girl’s first menstruation and sometimes comes rather late in the pubertal cycle.
A. Puberty
B. Precocious Puberty
C. Menarche
D. Spermarche
C. Menarche
First spontaneous ejaculation of sperm
A. Puberty
B. Precocious Puberty
C. Menarche
D. Spermarche
D. Spermarche
The seat of emotions such as anger and matures earlier than the prefrontal cortex.
A. Amygdala
B. Corpus Callosum
C. Hippocampus
A. Amygdala
Where fibers connect the brain’s left and right hemispheres, thickens in adolescence, and this improves adolescents’ ability to process information.
A. Amygdala
B. Corpus Callosum
C. Hippocampus
B. Corpus Callosum
Is more abstract than concrete operational thought. Adolescents are no longer limited to actual, concrete experiences as anchors for thought. They can conjure up make believe situations, abstract propositions, and events that are purely hypothetical, and can try to reason logically about them.
A. Formal Operations Thought
B. Hypothetical-Deductive Reasoning
A. Formal Operations Thought
Involves creating a hypothesis and deducing its implications, steps that provide ways to test the hypothesis.
A. Formal Operations Thought
B. Hypothetical-Deductive Reasoning
B. Hypothetical-Deductive Reasoning
This is the heightened self-consciousness of adolescents.
A. Adolescent Egocentrism
B. Dual-Process Model
C. Top-Dog Phenomenon
A. Adolescent Egocentrism
States that decision making is influenced by two systems—one analytical and one experiential, which compete with each other; in this model, it is the experiential system—monitoring and managing actual experiences—that benefits adolescent decision making.
A. Adolescent Egocentrism
B. Dual-Process Model
C. Top-Dog Phenomenon
B. Dual-Process Model
Moving from being the oldest, biggest, and most powerful students in elementary school to being the youngest, smallest, and least powerful students in the middle or junior high.
A. Adolescent Egocentrism
B. Dual-Process Model
C. Top-Dog Phenomenon
C. Top-Dog Phenomenon
is adolescents’ belief that others are as interested in them as they themselves are, as well as attention-getting behavior—attempts to be noticed, visible, and “on stage.”
A. Imaginary Audience
B. Personal Fable
A. Imaginary Audience
is the part of adolescent egocentrism involving a sense of uniqueness and invincibility (or invulnerability).
A. Imaginary Audience
B. Personal Fable
B. Personal Fable
Defined as a period of identity development during which the individual is exploring alternatives.
A. Crisis
B. Commitment
C. Ethic Identity
A. Crisis
is personal investment in identity.
A. Crisis
B. Commitment
C. Ethic Identity
B. Commitment
is an enduring aspect of the self that includes a sense of membership in an ethnic group, along with the attitudes and feelings.
A. Crisis
B. Commitment
C. Ethic Identity
C. Ethic Identity
The status of individuals who have not yet experienced a crisis or made any commitments. Not only are they undecided about occupational and ideological choices, they are also likely to show little interest in such matters
A. Identity Diffusion
B. Identity Foreclosure
C. Identity Moratorium
D. Identity Achievement
A. Identity Diffusion
The status of individuals who have made a commitment but not experienced a crisis. This occurs most often when parents hand down commitments to their adolescents, usually in an authoritarian way, before adolescents have had a chance to explore different approaches, ideologies, and vocations on their own.
A. Identity Diffusion
B. Identity Foreclosure
C. Identity Moratorium
D. Identity Achievement
B. Identity Foreclosure
the status of individuals who are amid a crisis but whose commitments are either absent or are only vaguely defined.
A. Identity Diffusion
B. Identity Foreclosure
C. Identity Moratorium
D. Identity Achievement
C. Identity Moratorium
The status of individuals who have undergone a crisis and made a commitment.
A. Identity Diffusion
B. Identity Foreclosure
C. Identity Moratorium
D. Identity Achievement
D. Identity Achievement
Moral reasoning is based on society’s norms. The aim is to win the approval of other people by behaving as “good boys” and “good girls.”
A. Stage 3: Conventional Level
B. Stage 4: Social System Morality
C. Stage 4: Post-conventional Level
A. Stage 3: Conventional Level
Moral reasoning is based on maintenance of order in society.
A. Stage 3: Conventional Level
B. Stage 4: Social System Morality
C. Stage 4: Post-conventional Level
B. Stage 4: Social System Morality
Morality is based on a personal moral code. Adolescents and adults believe that social roles, expectations, and laws exist to maintain order within society and to promote the good of all people.
A. Stage 3: Conventional Level
B. Stage 4: Social System Morality
C. Stage 4: Post-conventional Level
C. Stage 4: Post-conventional Level
Adolescents use their emerging identity as a source of ideas about careers.
A. Crystallization
B. Specifications
C. Implementation
A. Crystallization
Second phase in career, in which adolescents learn more about specific lines of work and begin training
A. Crystallization
B. Specifications
C. Implementation
B. Specifications
Third phase in career development, in which individuals enter the workforce.
A. Crystallization
B. Specifications
C. Implementation
C. Implementation
When adolescents commit illegal acts that are destructive to themselves or others.
A. Juvenile Delinquency
B. Status Offense
C. Index Offense
D. Adolescent-Limited Antisocial Behavior
E. Life-Course Persistent Antisocial Behavior
A. Juvenile Delinquency
An act that is not a crime if committed by an adult, such as truancy or running away from home.
A. Juvenile Delinquency
B. Status Offense
C. Index Offense
D. Adolescent-Limited Antisocial Behavior
E. Life-Course Persistent Antisocial Behavior
B. Status Offense
Acts that are illegal regardless of the perpetrator’s age.
A. Juvenile Delinquency
B. Status Offense
C. Index Offense
D. Adolescent-Limited Antisocial Behavior
E. Life-Course Persistent Antisocial Behavior
C. Index Offense
The behavior of youth who engage in relatively minor criminal acts but are not consistently antisocial.
A. Juvenile Delinquency
B. Status Offense
C. Index Offense
D. Adolescent-Limited Antisocial Behavior
E. Life-Course Persistent Antisocial Behavior
D. Adolescent-Limited Antisocial Behavior
Antisocial behavior that emerges at an early age and continues throughout life.
A. Juvenile Delinquency
B. Status Offense
C. Index Offense
D. Adolescent-Limited Antisocial Behavior
E. Life-Course Persistent Antisocial Behavior
E. Life-Course Persistent Antisocial Behavior
