Part V: Adolescence
Chapter 11	
Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence
Anne Frank, Diarist of the Holocaust
Adolescence: A Developmental Transition
Puberty: The End of Childhood
•	How Puberty Begins
•	Timing, Sequence, and Signs of Maturation
•	Adolescent Growth Spurt
•	Primary and Secondary Sex Characteristics
•	Signs of Sexual Maturity: Sperm Production and Menstruation
•	spermarche: boy’s first ejaculation
•	menarche: girl’s first menstruation
Physical and Mental Health

•	Physical Fitness

•	Sleep Needs
Physical and Mental Health

•	Nutrition and Eating Disorders
•	Obesity

•	Body Image and Eating Disorders
•	anorexia nervosa
•	bulimia nervosa
What’s Your View?

•	Can you suggest ways to reduce the prevalence of eating disorders?
Physical and Mental Health

•	Use and Abuse of Drugs
•	Risk Factors for Drug Abuse
•	Gateway Drugs
Trends in Adolescent Drug Use

Physical and Mental Health

•	Depression 

•	Death in Adolescence
•	Deaths from Vehicle Accidents and Firearms
•	Suicide

•	 Checkpoint: Can you…
•	Discuss factors affecting gender differences in adolescent depression?
•	Name the three leading causes of death among adolescents, and discuss the dangers of firearm injury?
•	Assess risk and protective factors and prevention programs for teenage suicide?
Aspects of Cognitive Maturation
•	Piaget’s Stage of Formal Operations
•	Hypothetical-Deductive Reasoning
•	Evaluating Piaget’s Theory

•	Language Development
Aspects of Cognitive Maturation
•	Elkind: Immature Characteristics of Adolescent Thought
•	Idealism and criticalness
•	Argumentativeness
•	Indecisiveness
•	Apparent hypocrisy
•	Self-consciousness
•	imaginary audience
•	Specialness and invulnerability
•	personal fable
Aspects of Cognitive Maturation
•	Moral Reasoning: Kohlberg’s Theory
•	Kohlberg’s Levels and Stages
•	Level I: Preconventional morality
•	Level II: Conventional morality
•	Level III: Postconventional morality
•	Evaluating Kohlberg’s Theory
•	Family Influences
•	Validity for Women and Girls
•	Cross-cultural Validity
Educational and Vocational Issues
What influences affect school success, and why do some students drop out?
Educational and Vocational Issues
•	Influences on School Achievement
•	Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Academic Motivation
•	Use of Time
•	Socioeconomic Status and the Family Environment
•	Parental Involvement and Parenting Styles
•	School Factors
Educational and Vocational Issues
•	Dropping Out of High School
•	Educational and Vocational Planning
•	Influences on Students’ Aspirations
•	Guiding Students Not Bound for College
•	Should High School Students Work Part Time?
Practically Speaking
Preventing Teenage Suicide
Window on the World

The Dialect of Adolescence
What’s Your View?
Can you remember “pubilect” expressions from your own adolescence? When and why did you use such expressions? What was their effect on others your age? On adults?