Adolecence- Vocabulary, Etc

Question 1

Ecological systems

Answer 1

The interacting structures both within the adolescent, such as physical, cognitive, and emotional functions, and in the adolescents surroundings, such as family, peers, school and the community.

Question 2

Stage environment fit

Answer 2

The ways developmental changes in an adolescent interrelate with changes in the adolescent social environment, such as parental rules and demands

Question 3

Cultural diversity

Answer 3

The variety of customs, beliefs, expectations, and behaviours that are typical of adolescents from different cultural and ethnocultural backgrounds

Question 4

Globalization

Answer 4

The tendency for economics, social, and political events and trends in one part of the world to have an impact on lives in order, distant parts of the world.

Question 5

Applications

Answer 5

Ways of taking knowledge about adolescence that is derived from research and putting it to practical use.

Question 6

Educated consumers

Answer 6

Those whose understanding of the field of adolescence and of the ways knowledge is gathered allows them to judge the strengths and weaknesses of new findings

Question 7

Positive development

Answer 7

The study of factors that encourage adolescents to develop In a positive direction

Question 8

Active learning

Answer 8

Interactions with new information, for example by rephrasing material or trying to explain it to someone else

Question 9

Deep processing

Answer 9

The association of a new information with material that is already in memory, especially material that has personal relevance

Question 10

Normative transitions

Answer 10

Changes that most adolescents go through at roughly the same point In their development, such as puberty and entering high school

Question 11

Idiosyncratic transition

Answer 11

Changes that take place at unpredictable points during adolescence, such as a parental divorce or a serious illness

Question 12

Early adolescence

Answer 12

The period from ages 11 to 14 that roughly coincides with the middle or junior high school years

Question 13

Middle adolescence

Answer 13

The period from ages 15 to 18 that roughly coincides with the high school years

Question 14

Late adolescence

Answer 14

The period from ages 19 to 22 that roughly coincides with college or university years, often referred to as emerging adulthood

Question 15

Developmental tasks

Answer 15

The skills, attitudes, and social functions that culture expects members to acquire at a particular point in their lives

Question 16

Inventionism

Answer 16

The view that the concept of adolescence was promoted in the early 20th century as a way of setting off young people from the adult world

Question 17

Life - cycle services

Answer 17

The custom in preindustrial Europe that sent young people to live and work away from their families during adolescence

Question 18

Storm and stress

Answer 18

The belief that adolescence is necessarily a very tumultuous period

Question 19

Age stratification

Answer 19

The process of defining groups, such as adolescents, on the basis of their age and treating them differently.

Question 20

Peers

Answer 20

Those who are of about the same age or level of development

Question 21

Consumerism

Answer 21

A concern with having or getting the clothes, toys, and other things that are currently fashionable

Question 22

Population pyramid

Answer 22

A way of showing in graphic from the proportions of people in a society who fall into different age categories

Question 23

Urbanization

Answer 23

The trend for young people, especially those in developing countries, to leave the countryside and more to cities