Intro to Adolescent Development ENG

In the United States, adolescence 

• Is getting longer

• Lasts about as long as it did a century ago

• Is getting shorter

• Got longer for several decades but is now getting shorter again.

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

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

• Both family and peer relationships to decrease in importance

• Both family and peer relationships to increase in importance.

• 1. Peer relationships to become less important and family relationships to become more important

A physical change in adolescence is

• The beginning of formal operational thinking

• The development of identity.

• An increase in the sophistication of moral reasoning

• Puberty

Adolescence ends when a person

• Has a child

• Turns 21 and achieves legal adult status

• Is fully independent

• Turns 20 and leaves the teen years behind

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

• Continues to generate many more connections in the brain

• Begins to slowly shrink in size

• Is fully developed

• Continues to develop for almost 10 additional years

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

• 1. The ability to reason

• 1. Friendships

• 1. Temperament

• 1. Food preferences

Erik Erikson is noted for describing ______ changes in adolescence.

• Cognitive

• Physical

• Social

• Moral

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

• 1. Decisions based on feeling rather than reasoning

• Optimism and energy

• Formal operational thinking

• Postconventional reasoning

Erik Erikson believe that intimate relationships are

• Always sexual

• Likely to interfere with other important life goals

• Always with one's spouse

• Always close, open, and loving

A collectivist culture would be most likely to

• 1. Allow children to try to solve their own problems independently.

• 1. Emphasize individual goals over the goals of a group

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

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