DR.ELKIND'S THEORY

FINDING FAULT WITH AUTHORITY FIGURES

• Adolescents discover that people they admire
• For years fall short of their ideals and let everyone knows it.
• Example: a teenager really admires a famous singer but
• She found out her songs were all stolen from others, she would be
• Mad and let everyone knows it and would not like her anymore.

ARGUMENTATIVENESS

• Adolescents practice building their own viewpoints
• By arguing any problem that presents itself.
• Example: teenagers would have a lot of arguments
• With their parents over all kinds of stuff.

INDECISIVENESS

• Aware of many choice, adolescents often
• Have trouble making even simple decisions.
• Example: teenagers often have a hard time
• Making choice on colors of clothes.

APPARENT HYPOCRISY

• Adolescents have Difficulties understanding
• An ideal and living up to it.
• Example: a student would have a hard time
• Deciding what to do after graduate.

SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS

• Adolescents assume that everyone Is thinking
• about the same thing they are-themselves.
• Example: teenagers would buy gifts for their
• Parents what they think are pretty.

INVULNERABILITY

• Adolescents begin to feel special, that their experiences are unique,
• they are not subject to the same rules that govern everyone else.
• Example: teenagers would do whatever they want and don't
• Care about the rules.