An aspect of self-efficacy that involves having the confidence in one’s ability to adapt one’s thinking to a particular situation is important in being cognitively flexible.

As opposed to the trend in young children, teenagers typically prefer to have a large group of friends, some of whom are especially intimate.

What is the difference between cliques and crowds?

Gender _____ involves a sense of one’s own gender, including knowledge, understanding, and acceptance of being male or female.

According to Jean Piaget, around age 11, the fourth stage of cognitive development, the _____ stage, begins.

Puberty refers to a period of declining abstract thought and emotional maturation during late adolescence involving neural and synaptic development in the brain.

Research has shown that infants born to adolescent mothers are more likely to have:

The event that comes closest to being a culture-wide rite of passage in the United States is:

The increased capacity for self-regulation that is seen in middle and late childhood is linked to developmental advances in the brain’s hypothalamus.

Gavin is rarely nominated as a best friend, but his peers don’t dislike him. He would be classified as a rejected child.