Adolescent development

Adolescent development

1. Physical

   • changes that occur both inside and outside the body.
   • all adolescents undergo hormonal changes, reflected as the brain as the body
   • physucal changes as being stronger, muscles growth, weight, height
   • ISSUES IN PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT

2. Cognitive

   • Growing new brain cells
     • New storage to learn more skills
   • Pruning some of the extra growth
     • Easy access to information
   • strengthening conections
     • recall information and use it efficienty
   • Thinking skills
     • Abstract thinking
     • Advanced reasoning
     • Meta cognition
     • Enhanced learning

3. Social

   • expandign social circles and their social roles
   • UNIQUE ISSUES IN SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
     • varying rates of physical development: evolving groups of friends; differing types of peer pressure; Changing ways to interact

4. Emotional

   • Self-management
     • describe emotions and how it affect them
     • Control emotions to face some situations
       • Sometimes they may find difficult to manage their emotions and think through the consequences of their actions
   • Hormones
     • Chemicals in brain, as hormones, can change adolescent's mood
     • Body response stressing to under pressure situations
       • adolecent take advantage of this taking callenges with alertness and focus

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