Question

Adolescent ________ is the heightened self-consciousness of adolescents.

Answer 1

Adolescent egocentrism is the heightened self-consciousness of adolescents.

Answer 2

One way that this increased consciousness of adolescents is called is adolescent egocentrism.

Egocentrism is the focus on one self: ego is self and centrism can be understood as placing something - here oneself - at the center.

So when adolescents are focusing on themselves - especially on how they are seen by other people - this is called adolescent egocentrism. It's also the time when young people experiment with their identity.