You are asked to think about yourself at age 13. Discuss at least some of the physical strengths and weaknesses you perceived in yourself during adolescence. Then respond to the following questions:

• What did it feel like to be an adolescent?
• What specific physical changes tended to be the most striking and have the greatest effects on your developing personality?
• How do these physical changes and their effects on individual personalities relate to the research and factual material presented in the text? On what issues did the text agree with your experience? Were there differences?