Describe the changes in brain maturation

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Read Chapter Lifespan Development: A Psychological Perspective 2nd Edition.pdf

1. Define the following:

Puberty
Primary Sexual Characteristics
Secondary Sexual Characteristics

2. What are three of the listed reasons the book mentions as possible reasons for the earlier onset of puberty?

3. Describe the effects of pubertal timing and how being early or late influences emotional and social development.

4. Describe the changes in brain maturation.

5. Describe the role of the limbic system during this stage.

6. Describe the development of the prefrontal cortex at this stage.

7. Describe Piaget's formal operational stage and the characteristics of formal operational thought by describing the following terms regarding an adolescent:

Abstract principles
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning
Transitivity
Adolescent egocentrism
Imaginary Audience
Person Fable

8. Define self-regulation.

9. Describe the changes in self-concept and self-esteem in adolescence.

10. Summarize Erikson's fifth stage, identity vs. role confusion.

11. Define each of Marcia's four identity statuses:

Identity Diffusion
Identity Foreclosure
Identity Moratorium
Identity Achievement

12. Summarize each of the three stages of ethnic identity development.

Unexamined Ethnic Identity
Ethnic Identity Search
Achieved Ethnic Identity

13. Define the following:

Bicultural Identity
Multiracial
Negative Identity

14. Define autonomy.

15. Define deviant peer contagion.

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