Biology Psychosocial Early Adolescence Potpourri
100
What is puberty
This begins when a hormone is released signaling the pituitary gland to start sexual development
100
What is group identity vs alienation
The psychosocial crisis involved in early adolescence
100
What is a clique
Small friendship group of 5 to 10 people
100
What are females
This gender has higher rates of adolescence depression
200
What is transsexual
Term for people who develop a gender identity opposite to their biological sex
200
What are autonomy from parents, gender identity, internalized morality, and career choice
Two of the four developmental tasks in later adolescence
200
What are self-labeling and disclosure
Two aspects of sexual orientation for early adolescence
200
What is formal operational thought
Stage proposed by Piaget that children reach in adolescence
300
What are androgens and estrogens
Name for male and female sex hormones
300
What is identity formation vs identity confusion
This results from the enormous difficulty of pulling together many components of the self into a unified image
300
What is grade 11
Grade which was referred to as the "tipping point" where more than 50% of students had experienced sex
300
What are depression and eating disorders
Two internalizing problems experienced in early adolescence
400
What are being overweight and lack of strength
The most common body issues for girls and boys during adolescence
400
What are agency, unity, otherness, and decentering or distancing
The basic elements involved in the private sense of self
400
What are socialization forces and selection forces
Two processes at work that influence teen alcohol use
400
What is seven
Tiedeman identified this many phases in his model of career decision making
500
What are ability to reject irrelevant info, formulate complex hypothetical arguments, organize an approach to a complex task, and follow a sequence to task completion
Two of the cognitive capacities involved in executive functioning
500
What are capacity to categorize people, experiencing a sense of group history, emotional investment in group, and social evaluation of one's group
Three of the four dimensions of group identity
500
What are affiliation, attachment, caregiving, and sexual gratification
The four needs being met by dating during early adolescence
500
What are individual, psychosocial-emotional, socioeconomic, societal, familial, and situational
Three factors that influence career choice






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