1. The major physical development changes for adolescence are puberty, the brain, and adolescent sexuality. Puberty changes relate with sexual maturation, height, weight, and hormonal changes. The brain changes in a bottom-up, top-down sequence with sensory, appetitive, sexual, sensation-seeking, and higher-level brain linkages. Adolescent sexuality changes relate with developing a sexual identity and sexual behaviors.
3. Maturing early or late can be a good or bad thing. Maturing early can be positive for boys by making them perceive of themselves more and have better success peer relations than the boys whom mature late. Late maturing boys have more time to explore life’s options. Early-maturing girls are more likely to smoke, drink, be …show more content…
Service learning is a form of education that promotes social responsibility and service to the community. One benefit of service learning is that it keeps the teenagers out of trouble. Another benefit is that encourage adolescents to become less self-centered. One more benefit is that it encourage more strongly motivated to help others.
16. The vignette in the beginning of chapter 10 is a group of friends looking at a computer. This vignette shows me that this chapter could be more about peers. Also, it expresses how adolescents can be social.
18. Ethnic identity is an enduring aspect of the self that includes a sense of membership in an ethnic group, along with the attitudes and feeling related to that membership. Ethnic identity deepens during adolescence because they identity in some ways with their ethnic group and in other ways with the majority culture. Developing a positive ethnic identity is important because adolescents can know where they come from.
21. Peers play powerful roles in the lives of adolescents. Peer relations undergo important changes in adolescence, including changes in friendships, peer groups and the beginning of romantic relationships. The negative peer influences are being pressure in to drinking and smoking. The positive peer influences are being pressure to be nice and help
3. Maturing early or late can be a good or bad thing. Maturing early can be positive for boys by making them perceive of themselves more and have better success peer relations than the boys whom mature late. Late maturing boys have more time to explore life’s options. Early-maturing girls are more likely to smoke, drink, be …show more content…
Service learning is a form of education that promotes social responsibility and service to the community. One benefit of service learning is that it keeps the teenagers out of trouble. Another benefit is that encourage adolescents to become less self-centered. One more benefit is that it encourage more strongly motivated to help others.
16. The vignette in the beginning of chapter 10 is a group of friends looking at a computer. This vignette shows me that this chapter could be more about peers. Also, it expresses how adolescents can be social.
18. Ethnic identity is an enduring aspect of the self that includes a sense of membership in an ethnic group, along with the attitudes and feeling related to that membership. Ethnic identity deepens during adolescence because they identity in some ways with their ethnic group and in other ways with the majority culture. Developing a positive ethnic identity is important because adolescents can know where they come from.
21. Peers play powerful roles in the lives of adolescents. Peer relations undergo important changes in adolescence, including changes in friendships, peer groups and the beginning of romantic relationships. The negative peer influences are being pressure in to drinking and smoking. The positive peer influences are being pressure to be nice and help