Being Young

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

What is the range of adolescence?

• 31-39

• 51-59

• 11-19

• 21-29

Who matures faster?

• Boys

• Girls

Peer pressure is

• Always negative

• Means conforming to your friends

• Increases throughout adolescence

• Has not effect on adults

What circumstances kept young people from going to work early in life and helped contribute to the extension of adolescence?

• Moving off of farms

• Child labor laws

• Compulsory education laws

• All of the above

Which of the tasks that teens are dealing with?

• Overcoming insecurities with the changing body

• Adjusting to new intellectual abilities

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

• All of the above

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

Some teenagers rebel because of internal family problems that are caused by conflict, permissive parenting and addictions.

• True

• False

Many of these programs are now a part of the public school system

• Parent cooperatives

• Head start

• Kindergarten

• School-age child care programs

Montessori schools stress the development of _____ in children

• Dependence

• Independence

• Creativity

• Disobedience