Chapter 8- Adolescence

Question 1

adolescence

Answer 1

the 1st signs of puberty; ages 10-18

Question 2

primary sex characteristics

Answer 2

characteristics related to reproduction; ova & sperm

Question 3

Menarche

Answer 3

a girls’s 1st period

Question 4

spermarche

Answer 4

when a guy 1st starts making sperm

Question 5

secondary sex characteristics

Answer 5

bodily changes in response to sex hormones

Question 6

secular trend

Answer 6

changes to a kind of trend in a population over time because of technology

Question 7

anorexia nervosa

Answer 7

intentional self-starvation

Question 8

bulimia

Answer 8

binge eating followed by purging

Question 9

formal operations

Answer 9

the ability to apply reasoning about complex tasks and problems involving multiple variables + the development of abstract thinking

Question 10

hypothetical-deductive reasoning

Answer 10

the ability to think scientifically and apply the scientific method to cognitive tasks

Question 11

divided attention

Answer 11

doing two things at once and splitting attention between them

Question 12

metacognition

Answer 12

the capacity to think about thinking

Question 13

adolescent egocentrism

Answer 13

the result of adolescents struggling to separate their thoughts about themselves from the thoughts of others

Question 14

personal fable

Answer 14

belief in the uniqueness of their personal experiences and destiny

Question 15

actual self

Answer 15

self conception

Question 16

possible self

Answer 16

what you could be

Question 17

false self

Answer 17

a public self that doesn’t represent the real you

Question 18

gender-intensification hypothesis

Answer 18

psychological and behavioral differences between males and females are magnified when entering adolescence due to increased pressure to adhere to gender roles

Question 19

preconventional reasoning

Answer 19

moral reasoning based on egocentric views on rewards and punishment

Question 20

conventional reasoning

Answer 20

reasoning that is based on the values of the majority

Question 21

postconventional reasoning

Answer 21

reasoning based on personal views

Question 22

ethic of autonomy

Answer 22

do as you please as long as you don’t hurt anyone; the individual has ll moral authority

Question 23

ethic of community

Answer 23

reasoning guided by an obligation to others in a shared group

Question 24

ethic of divinity

Answer 24

a divine being guides reasoning

Question 25

cliques

Answer 25

small groups of friends that know each other well

Question 26

crowds

Answer 26

larger reputation-based groups that aren’t friends

Question 27

multisystemic approach

Answer 27

intervention at multiple levels; home, school, the neighborhood