9: Cognitive, Emotional, and Social Development in Adolescents Flashcards
socialization of a young teenager into delinquency through conversations centered on performing antisocial acts
deviancy training
any after-school program or safe, structured activity outside of the school day that is devoted to promoting teenagers to flourish, explore interests
youth development program
Jean Piaget’s fourth and final stage of cognitive development, reached at around age 12 and characterized by teenagers’ ability to reason at an abstract, scientific level
formal operational stage
a small peer group composed of roughly six teenagers who have similar attitudes and who share activities
clique
in Kohlberg’s theory, the lowest level of moral reasoning, in which people approach ethical issues by considering only the personal punishments or rewards of their actions
preconventional thought
antisocial behavior that, for most teens, is specific to adolescence and does not persist into adult life
adolescence-limited turmoil
David Elkind’s term for young teenagers’ tendency to believe that their experiences are unique from everyone else’s, evoking excessive pride or shame - component of adolescent egocentrism
personal fable
David Elkind’s term for the tendency of young teenagers to feel that their actions are at the center of everyone else’s consciousness
adolescent egocentrism
research procedure designed to capture moment-to-moment experiences by having people take notes describing their activities and emotions whenever a signal sounds
experience-sampling method
term referring to the way school expulsion may provoke criminal behavior and incarceration for at-risk teens
school-to-prison pipeline
G. Stanley Hall’s phrase for the intense moodiness, emotional sensitivity, and risk-taking tendencies that characterize the life stage he labeled adolescence
storm and stress
practice in U.S. public high schools of immediately suspending students after one rule infraction
zero-tolerance policies
in Kohlberg’s theory, the highest level of moral reasoning, in which people respond to ethical issues by applying their own moral guidelines apart from society’s rules
postconventional thought
in Kohlberg’s theory, the intermediate level of moral reasoning, in which people respond to ethical issues by discussing need to uphold social norms
conventional thought
acts of self-mutilation, such as cutting or burning one’s body, to cope with stress
nonsuicidal self-injury
