Psych 2 - Module 13

Adolescence ends when a person

• is fully independent

• turns 20 and leaves the teen years behind

• turns 21 and achieves legal adult status

• has a child

In the United States, adolescence

• lasts about as long as it did a century ago

• is getting longer

• got longer for several decades but is now getting shorter again

• is getting shorter

A physical change in adolescence is

• puberty

• an increase in the sophistication of moral reasoning

• the beginning of formal operational thinking

• the development of identity

By the time the changes of puberty are complete, the brain

• is fully developed

• continues to generate many more connections in the brain

• continues to develop for almost 10 additional years

• begins to slowly shrink in size

Erik Erikson is noted for describing ____________ changes in adolescence.

• physical

• moral

• cognitive

• social

A collectivist culture would be most likely to

• consider the toys in the family to be owned by all the children together.

• emphasize individual goals over the goals of a group.

• try to provide each child with his or her own bedroom.

• allow children to try to solve their own problems independently.

Erik Erikson argued that the search for identity was most likely to be characterized by

• formal operational thinking

• decisions based on feeling rather than reasoning

• postconventional reasoning

• optimism and energy

Erik Erikson believed that intimate relationships are

• likely to interfere with other important life goals

• always with one's spouse

• always close, open, and loving

• always sexual

As you move from childhood to adolescence, it is common for

• family relationships to become less important and peer relationships to become more important

• peer relationships to become less important and family relationships to become more important

• both family and peer relationships to increase in importance

• both family and peer relationships to decrease in importance

During normal adolescent development, which is most likely to stay stable?

• Temperament

• Food preferences

• Friendships

• The ability to reason