Adolescence Overview
Learning Outcomes
- Summarize the overall physical growth
- Describe the changes that occur during puberty
- Describe the changes in brain maturation
- Describe the changes in sleep
- Describe gender intensification
- Identify nutritional concerns
- Describe eating disorders
- Explain the prevalence, risk factors, and consequences of adolescent pregnancy
- Describe Piaget’s formal operational stage and the characteristics of formal operational thought
- Describe adolescent egocentrism
- Describe Information Processing research on attention and memory
- Describe the developmental changes in language
- Describe the various types of adolescent education
- Identify changes in high school drop-out rates based on gender and ethnicity
- Describe the changes in self-concept and self-esteem in adolescence
- Summarize Erikson’s fifth psychosocial task of identity versus role confusion
- Describe Marcia’s four identity statuses
- Summarize the three stages of ethnic identity development
- Describe the parent-teen relationship
- Describe the role of peers
- Describe dating relationships