MODULE 3- Development Stages in Middle and Late Adolescence

Question 1

developmental transition from childhood to adulthood

Answer 1

-adolescence

Question 2

stages of healthy adolescent development

Answer 2

-physical growth
-intellectual/cognition
-autonomy
-body image
-peer group
-identity development

Question 3

12-14 ages

Answer 3

early adolescence

Question 4

15-16 ages

Answer 4

middle adolescence

Question 5

17-19 ages

Answer 5

late adolescence

Question 6

puberty- rapid growth period
secondary sexual characteristics appear

Answer 6

physical growth (early)

Question 7

concrete thoughts dominate - “here and now”
cause and effect rs is underdeveloped
stronger “self” than social awareness

Answer 7

intellectual/cognition (early)

Question 8

challenge authority
loneliness
wide mood swings
things of childhood rejected
argumentative and disobedient

Answer 8

autonomy (early)

Question 9

preoccupation of physical changes and critical of appearance
anxieties about secondary sexual characteristic changes
peers as standard for normal appearance

Answer 9

body image (early)

Question 10

Serves as developmental purpose
Intense friendship with same sex
Contact with opposite sex in groups

Answer 10

peer group early)

Question 11

“Am I normal?”
* Daydreaming
* Vocational goals change frequently
* Begin to develop own value system
* Emerging sexual feelings and
sexual exploration
* Imaginary audience
* Desire for privacy
* Magnify own problems “no one
understands”

Answer 11

identity development(early)

Question 12

• Secondary sexual characteristic
  advanced
• 95% of adult height reached

Answer 12

physical growth (middle)

Question 13

• Growth in abstract thoughts; reverts
  to concrete thoughts when stressed
• Cause- effect relationship better
  understood
• Very self-absorbed

Answer 13

intellectual (middle)

Question 14

Conflict with family predominates
due to ambivalence about emerging
independence

Answer 14

autonomy (middle)

Question 15

• Less concern about physical
  changes but more concerned about
  personal attractiveness
• Excessive physical activities
  alternating with lethargy

Answer 15

body image (middle)

Question 16

• Strong peer allegiances — fad
  behaviors
• Sexual drives emerge and teens
  begin to explore ability to date and
  attract a partner

Answer 16

peer group (middle)

Question 17

Experimentation — sex, drugs,
friends, jobs, risk-taking behaviors

Answer 17

identity development (middle)

Question 18

• Physical maturity and reproductive
  leveling off and ending

Answer 18

physical growth (late)

Question 19

• Abstract thought established
• Future oriented; able to
  understand, plan and pursue long
  range goals
• Philosophical and idealistic

Answer 19

intellectual(late)

Question 20

• Emancipation: (Vocational/
  technical, college and/or work)
• Adult lifestyle

Answer 20

autonomy(late)

Question 21

• Usually comfortable with body
  image

Answer 21

body image(late)

Question 22

• Decisions/ values less influenced
  by peers
• Relates to individuals more than
  group
• Selection of partners based on
  individual preference

Answer 22

peer group(late)

Question 23

• Pursue realistic vocational goals
  with training or career employment
• Relate to family as adult
• Realization of own limitations and
  mortality
• Establishment of sexual identity
  and sexual activity is common
• Establishment of moral and ethical
  value system
• More capable of intimate and
  complex relationships

Answer 23

identity development(late)

Question 24

he identified the eleven development tasks associated with the adolescent transition

Answer 24

Robert Havighurst

Question 25

eleven development tasks associated with the adolescent transition

Answer 25

1. must adjust to a new physical sense of self.
2. must adjust to new intellectual abilities.
3. must adjust to increased cognitive demands at school.
   4.must develop expanded verbal skills.
   5.must develop a personal sense of identity.
   6.must establish adult vocational goals.
   7.must establish emotional and psychological independence from his or her parents.
4. must develop stable and productive peer relationships.
5. must learn to manage her or his sexuality.
   10.must adopt a personal value system.
6. must develop increased impulse control and behavioral maturity