Chapter 8Rites of Passage: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence
Learning Objectives
Pubertal Changes
- Describe when the adolescent growth spurts begin and end for both boys and girls.
- Describe the physical events and their timing that occur during puberty in both boys and girls.
- Explain the causes of puberty.
- Describe how the onset of puberty is influenced by both one's genes and nutrition and health.
- Know the environmental contributions to the onset of puberty, including paternal investment theory.
- Describe teenagers’ body images and their reactions to spermarche and menarche.
- Explain the causes of teenage moodiness.
- Describe the costs and benefits of early maturation for both boys and girls.
Health
- Describe a healthy diet for teenagers and the typical teenager’s diet.
- Describe the causes, effects, and treatments of being overweight.
- Describe the causes of anorexia and bulimia.
- Describe the amount of exercise that the typical American teen gets.
- Describe the benefits and problems associated with sports participation.
- Describe how the causes of death in teens differ by gender and ethnicity.
- Explain the decision-making process that teens use.
Information Processing During Adolescence
- Describe the changes in working memory, processing speed, content knowledge, strategies, and metacognitive skill.
- Explain how adolescents’ beliefs interfere with effective thinking.
Reasoning About Moral Reasoning
- Define moral reasoning.
- Describe how moral reasoning differs at Kohlberg's 3 levels.
- Describe the research on Kohlberg's theory regarding progression through the stages, skipping stages, and regression through the stages.
- Describe the research that supports link between moral reasoning and moral action.
- Describe research on cultural differences in moral reasoning.
- Explain the difference between Gilligan's view and Kohlberg's view of moral reasoning.
- Describe Eisenberg’s levels of prosocial reasoning.
Describe the effects of exposure to more advanced moral reasoning and exposure to Just Communities on moral reasoning.