Ch. 9 Flashcards
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Aristotle
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- 322-384 BCE
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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- 1760’s confessions described the young as being infringed by depression and paranoia and borrow from German literature the term “Strum and Drang”
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William Shakespeare
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- used “strum and drang” to describe a time of storm and confusion in two of his works
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G. Stanley Hall
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- 1844-1924
- published Adolescence in 1904 and the beginning of the field of adolescence and borrowed “strum and drang” and used its translation of
storm and stress to describe adolescence and it stuck”
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Adolescence
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- recognized as a distinct stage of life in the 20th century and identified as the time when one goes to high school
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1960s and 1970s led to what?
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- more baby boomers teens who rejected conventional rules
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adolescent culture
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- due to increased high school attendance, intellectual skills of adolescence increased and advertising saw this is a lucrative market
- always spend more money than other age groups for everything from records/cds, cars, and houses
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what did the Roosevelt administration do?
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- implemented a national youth program to lure young people to school
- by 1939, 75% of all US teenagers were attending high school
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Dr. E. Sowell
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- 2007
- mapped the adolescent brain maturation with stratal magnetic resonance imaging to investigate structural changes to changing brain activation and cognitive abilities
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Dr. Sowell’s findings #1
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- comical thinning over large regions of the dorsal, frontal and parietal lobes, and increased cortical thickness in primary language cortices in 3 cross sectional and longitudinal studies found enhanced language and cognitive capabilities
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Dr. Sowell’s findings #2
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- the spatial and temporal pattern of results, with incomplete development of frontal cortices during adolescence, is consistent with observations of increased risk taking behaviors and perhaps being more prone to addictions
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Dr. Sowell’s findings #3
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- relationships between cortical thickness and cognitive function on tests of general verbal intellectual functioning found cortical dissociations and improved adolescent phonological processing and motor skills
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classic theories of teenage thinking: jean piaget
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- formal operational stage (age 12) the ability to think abstractly takes a qualitative leap
- reasoning it at its pinnacle
- cognitive capabilities include flexibility and hypothetical and scientific abilities
- full cognitive adult human potential has been reached
- not universal; occurs mainly in western cultures
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classic theories of teenage thinking: John flavell and metacognition
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- knowledge of one’s stores knowledge or perception as cognitive “thinking” agents
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classic theories of teenage thinking: Lawrence kohlber’s stages of moral judgement
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- capable of developing moral code during adolescence; researched by analyzing responses to moral dilemmas
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classic theories of teenage thinking: David elkind’s adolescent egocentrism
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- develops capability to logically manipulate concepts into one’s mind