Outline Chapter 11

Chapter 11
Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence

Physical Changes

I The Endocrine and Reproductive Systems
A. Sexual Development in Girls
B. Sexual Development in Boys
II Timing of Puberty
III Other Body Systems
A. The brain
B. The skeletal system
C. The muscular system
D. The heart and lungs

Adolescent Health

I Sensation-seeking
II Sexual behavior
III Teenaged pregnancy
IV Drugs, alcohol, and tobacco
V Body Image and Eating disorders
VI Depression and Suicide

Changes in Thinking and Memory

I Piaget’s Formal Operational Stage
A. Systematic Problem Solving
B. Logic
1. hypothetico-deductive reasoning
II Direct tests of Piaget’s view
III Advances in information processing
A. metacognition, metamemory, and strategy use
B. text learning

Schooling

I Transition to Secondary School
A. middle school
1. task goals
2. ability goals
B. high school
II Gender, ethnicity, and achievement in science and math
III Dropping out of high school

* Page 306, Elkind’s Adolescent Egocentrism