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🐣Adolescent Development
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257 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Adolescent Development exam

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A

Abstinence-only education
Academic achievement tests
Academic outcomes
Academic performance
Acculturation Strategies
Acculturation stress
Acculturative stress
Achieved ethnic identity
Achievement goals
Acne Development
Active mediation
Adaptive coping
Adolescent altruism
Adult role models
Adverse Childhood Experiences
Albert Bandura
Alcohol Consumption
Alcohol use
Amygdala Activation
Anna Freud
Antisocial behavior
Attachment theory
Authority and Social-Order Maintaining Orientation
Autonomy Expectations
Axillary hair growth

B

Behavioral Checklists
Behavioral modeling
Bicultural competence
Bicultural identity
Binge Eating Disorder
Binge-eating disorder
Biological factors
Birth order
Blended families

C

Caloric Intake
Career exploration programs
Carol Dweck
Carol Gilligan
Cognitive empathy
Cognitive flexibility
Cognitive Function
Cognitive maturation
Cognitive reappraisal
Cold cognition
Coming of age rituals
Coming-of-age rituals
Compulsory Education
Compulsory Schooling
Confidentiality in healthcare
Cultural Expectations
Cultural identity conflicts
Cultural relativity in moral development
Cultural-historical theory
Culturally responsive programming
Culturally sensitive interventions

D

Deep Friendships
Developmental Assets Theory
Developmental neuropsychology
Developmental neuroscience
Developmental Psychopathology
Developmental trajectory
Diana Baumrind
Digital identity
Domain specificity
Dopamine Regulation
Double standards
Drug Education Programs

E

Educational aspirations
Emotion-focused coping
Emotional Development Theory
Emotional dysregulation
Emotional intimacy
Emotional Memory Formation
Emotional Processing
Empathy development