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Adolescence Test Review Flashcards

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Combining or blending traditionally male and female characteristics.

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Androgynous

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Groups consisting of people with similar positions in socio economic class

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Class lines

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A set of behaviours organized around how either a male or female should think and behave

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Gender Schema

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An oversimplified or distorted generalization about the characteristics of men and women

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Gender Stereotypes

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The set of behaviours that society considers appropriate for each gender

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Gender Role

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Acting in accordance with some specified authority

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Conformity

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The neurotransmitter chemical that makes people feel happier

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Seratonin

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An integrated sense of self

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Identity

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How much one likes oneself

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Self-esteem

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Often based on good looks, personality, and athletic ability.

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Popularity

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Acts of running away, teen pregnancy, alcohol, drug abuse, which leads to under achievement in school

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Juvenile Delinquency

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A period of conflict in which adolescence worry intensely about who they are

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Identity Crisis

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Focuses on how we perceive, organize, and use information

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Social Learning Theory

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A small exclusive group of people within a larger group,

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Clique

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Freud says this is a result rather than the cause of identification

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Gender Typing

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The sex group masculine or feminine to which an individual biologically belongs

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Gender Identity

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Part 2

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Part 2

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The term for the first ejaculation

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Spermarche

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19
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A hormone imbalance that produces premature puberty

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Precocious Puberty

20
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This psychologist said that identity is the key to adolescent development

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Erikson

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Ceremonies or rituals in which an individual is admitted new status, or accepted to new position.

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Initiation rites

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The point at which reproduction is first possible, at end of childhood

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Puberty

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Many teens get into thinking about “what if “ in order to understand and offer suggestions towards world conditions

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Hypothetical

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The term for the first menstrual period

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Menarche

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Examining ones own thoughts and motives

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Introspection

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This psychologist thought that adolescence is a rough time of storm and stress, confusion, and frustration

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Hall

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Adolescence who believe they can save the world from evil

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Messiah Complex

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The condition of uneven growth, or maturity of body parts

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Asynchrony

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This psychologist considers adolescence to be an enjoyable, positive, healthy experience for most

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Mead

30
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This psychologist says that peers teach us how to behave in the world, but parents supply the environment

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Harris

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An individual’s attempt to explain unpleasant emotion or situation that will preserve his or her self-esteem

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Rationalization

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Rites of passage

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Birthdays, bar mitzvahs, bat mitzvah, graduations, weddings, etc.

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Havinghursts 9 Developmental Tasks

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  1. Accepting one’s physical makeup and gender role
  2. Developing appropriate relationships with peers of both sexes
  3. Becoming emotionally independent of parents
  4. Becoming economically independent
  5. Deciding on, and preparing a career
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Factors that determine whether adolescence will be turbulent, or good:

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  • Individuals adjustment in childhood (elementary schools etc)
  • The levels of adjustment of their parents and peers
  • The changes that occur during adolescence, physiologically and cognitively
35
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Puberty ages for girls:

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8 and 10

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Puberty for boys:

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9 and 16

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Early Maturation in boys:

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  • become “heroes in sports
  • leaders in social activities
  • girls are attracted to them, have “crushes”
  • adults trust them more, see them as more mature
  • more self confident
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Early Maturation in girls:

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  • more popular
  • boys are attracted to them
  • have a more favourable body image (depending on culture)
  • adults treat them more maturely
39
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Factors that bring on early menstruation

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  • stress/family stress that brings on behavioural, and psychological problems.
  • Slower metabolism-making them gain weight, triggering early menstruation due to the more fat, that can sustain a fetus
40
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Education correlated to cognitive ability

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  • varies with social and economic classes
  • varies with other nations due to differences in formal education
  • illiterate people cannot separate thought from reality, so they don’t reach advanced levels of thinking
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Problems related to work:

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  • less time to study
  • can create false ideas about money
  • gain false impressions/ideas of the workplace (low paying and unchallenging)
  • experience a false sense of affluation
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Warning signs of Depression and Suicide

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  • engage in risk taking behaviour (and get involved with drugs and alcohol)
  • withdrawal from friends
  • self-criticism
  • talking about death and suicide
  • Greatest danger is when it seems to be lifting, and the individual is at peace
43
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(Adolescent) Rejection of independence and individuation:

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  • depend on parents to meet needs physically, financially, and socially
  • hinder a cohesive identity
  • lack of self-identity
44
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(Parents) Rejection:

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  • an excessive emotional attachment
  • emotional dependent
  • have worries about themselves as they aged
45
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Hormone Diagram

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Pineal Gland (Brain)
Pituitary Gland (By ear)
Parathyroid Gland (Top neck)
Thyroid Gland (neck)
Thymus Gland (lung)
Adrenal Gland (top of kidney)
Pancreas (between kidneys)
Ovaries (female)
Testes (Male)

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