Adolescence

Adolescence

1. storm & stress - the way in which adolescence was described by the 'father' of adolescent psychology, G. Stanley Hall

2. adolescence - the stage of human development that follows middle childhood and serves as a transaction from childhood to adulthood

3. puberty - a period of rapid physical maturation involving hormonal and bodily changes that occur primarily during early adolescence

4. primary sexual characteristics - internal bodily changes that occur during adolescence

5. secondary sexual characteristics - external bodily changes that occur during adolescence

6. spermarche - the beginning of sperm production in young men

7. menarche - the beginning of the menstrual cycle in young women

8. anorexia nervosa - an eating disorder where people refuse to eat because they imagine themselves to be fat

9. bulimia nervosa - an eating disorder where people eat but then privately vomit up what they have eaten, because they imagine themselves to be fat

10. formal-operational stage - within a Piagetian framework, the cognitive thinking that develop during adolescence

11. hypothetical-deductive thinking - the ability and desire to actively plan and problem-solve which is characteristic of formal-operational thinking

12. convergent thinking - a spin-off of formal-operational thinking, referring to the strategy of focussing on one correct answer to a problem

13. divergent thinking - a spin-off of formal operational thinking referring to the strategy of focussing on many possible answers to aproblem

14. egocentrism - a preocupation with the self and a person's related self-consciousness

15. personal myths - adolescents' fantasies about themselves as unique and special

16. invincibility fable - adolescents' unrealistic ideas about themselves as being invincible and untouchable

17. imaginary audience - a term used to refer to the common adolescent assumption the he/ she is always the centre of attention