Adolescence, Emerging Adulthood, Aging

Question 1

Adolescent peer groups characterized by shared reputations or images

Answer 1

Crowds

Question 2

The spread of problem behaviours within groups of adolescents

Answer 2

Deviant peer cognition

Question 3

Genetic factors that make individuals more or less responsive to environmental experiences

Answer 3

Differential susceptibility

Question 4

Individuals commit to an identity without exploration of options

Answer 4

Foreclosure

Question 5

Adolescents tend to associate with peers who are similar to themselves

Answer 5

Homophily

Question 6

Individuals who have explored different options and then made commitments

Answer 6

Identity achievement

Question 7

Adolescents neither explore or commit to any roles or ideologies

Answer 7

Identity diffusion

Question 8

State in which adolescents are actively exploring options but have not yet made identity commitments

Answer 8

Moratorium

Question 9

Parents’ manipulation of and intrusion into adolescents’ emotional and cognitive world through invalidating their feelings and pressuring them to think in certain ways

Answer 9

Psychological control

Question 10

Belief system that emphasizes the duties and obligations that each person has toward others

Answer 10

Collectivism

Question 11

New life stage extending from about 18-25. Primary features include identity exploration, instability, focus on self development, feeling incompletely adult, and broad sense of possibilities

Answer 11

Emerging adulthood

Question 12

Belief system that exalts freedom, independence, and individual choice as high values

Answer 12

Individualism

Question 13

Economically advanced countries of the world, in which most of the world’s wealth is concentrated

Answer 13

Industrialized countries

Question 14

Less economically advanced countries, which comprise the majority of the world’s population

Answer 14

Non-industrialized countries

Question 15

Members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, comprised of the worlds wealthiest countries

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OECD countries

Question 16

Education or training beyond secondary school

Answer 16

Tertiary education

Question 17

How old or young people feel compared to their actual age

Answer 17

Age identity

Question 18

Qualitative research method used to understand characteristics and life themes that an individual considers to uniquely distinguish themselves from others

Answer 18

Autobiographical narratives

Question 19

Group of people typically born in the same year or historical period who share common experiences over time (baby boomers)

Answer 19

Cohorts

Question 20

Theory that proposes that the frequency, types, and reciprocity of social exchanges change with age. This impacts the health and well-being of the givers and receivers in the convoy

Answer 20

Convoy model of social relations

Question 21

Research method that provides info about age group differences; age differences are confounded with cohort differences and effects related to history and time of study

Answer 21

Cross sectional studies

Question 22

Type of intellectual ability that relies on the application of knowledge, experience, and learned info

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Crystallized intelligence

Question 23

Intelligence that relies on the ability to use info processing resources to reason logically and solve novel problems

Answer 23

Fluid intelligence

Question 24

Individuals’ perceptions of and satisfaction with their lives as a whole

Answer 24

Global subjective well-being

Question 25

Component of well being that refers to emotional experiences, often including measures of positive (happiness, contentment) and negative affect (stress, sadness)

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Hedonic well-being

Question 26

Inter-individual and subgroup differences in level and rate of change over time

Answer 26

Heterogeneity

Question 27

Ability to focus on a subset of info while suppressing attention to less relevant info

Answer 27

Inhibitory functioning

Question 28

Different patterns of development observed within an individual (intra-) or between individuals (inter-)

Answer 28

Intra- and inter-individual differences

Question 29

Theory of development that highlights the effects of social expectation of age related life events and social roles. Also considers the life long cumulative effects of membership in specific cohorts and sociocultural subgroups and exposure to historical events

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Life course theories

Question 30

Theory of development that emphasizes the patterning of lifelong within and in between person differences in the shale, level, and rate of change trajectories

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Life span theories

Question 31

Approach to studying intelligence that examines performance on tests of intellectual functioning

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Psychometric approach

Question 32

Individuals’ self perceptions of their own aging process, positive perceptions have been shown to be associated with greater longevity and health

Answer 32

Self-perceptions of aging

Question 33

Theory proposed to explain the reduction of social partners in older adulthood, posits that older adults focus on meeting emotional over info-gathering goals, and adaptively select social partners who meet this need

Answer 33

Socioemotional selectivity theory

Question 34

Includes three components: avoiding disease, maintaining high levels of cognitive and physical functioning, and having an actively engaged lifestyle

Answer 34

Successful aging