Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Adolescence
- storm & stress - the way in which adolescence was described by the 'father' of adolescent
psychology, G. Stanley Hall
- adolescence - the stage of human development that follows middle childhood and serves as a transaction
from childhood to adulthood
- puberty - a period of rapid physical maturation involving hormonal and bodily changes that occur primarily during
early adolescence
- primary sexual characteristics - internal bodily changes that occur
during adolescence
- secondary sexual characteristics - external bodily changes that occur during adolescence
- spermarche - the beginning of sperm production in young men
- menarche - the beginning of the menstrual cycle in young women
- anorexia nervosa - an eating disorder where people refuse to eat because they imagine themselves to be fat
- bulimia nervosa - an eating disorder where people eat but then privately vomit up what they have eaten, because they imagine themselves to be fat
- formal-operational stage - within a Piagetian framework, the
cognitive thinking that develop during adolescence
- hypothetical-deductive thinking - the ability and desire to actively plan and problem-solve which is characteristic of formal-operational thinking
- convergent thinking - a spin-off of formal-operational thinking,
referring to the strategy of focussing on one correct answer to a
problem
- divergent thinking - a spin-off of formal operational thinking referring to the strategy of focussing on many possible answers to aproblem
- egocentrism - a preocupation with the self and a person's related self-consciousness
- personal myths - adolescents' fantasies about themselves as unique and special
- invincibility fable - adolescents' unrealistic ideas about themselves as being invincible
and untouchable
- imaginary audience - a term used to refer to the common adolescent assumption the he/ she is always the centre
of attention