Adolescent Development

Define Identity:

• When you look at someone else

• A sense of oneself as a unique person

• A sense of someone else

• Your buddy

Define Adolescence:

• Process or state of growing to maturity

• Process of growing from adulthood to old age

• When you get old

• When you are a child

Which of the tasks that teens are dealing with?

• Overcoming insecurities with the changing body

• Adjusting to new intellectual abilities

• Breastfeeding

• Achieving new and more mature relations with age-mates of both sexes

New cognitive (mental) abilities lead teens to:

• Argue so they try out their new thinking abilities

• Give up completely on schoolwork

• Have difficulty in reversing a situation

• Believing everything they see

When choosing friends, which of the following are good guidelines?

• Popularity

• Similar values and goals

• Money

• Ones who inspire you to be a better person