Chapter 1: Adolescence as a social transition

Question 1

G. Stanley Hall’s concept that adolescence is a turbulent time charged with conflict and mood swings

Answer 1

Storm and stress view

Question 2

inventionist view

Answer 2

adolescence is a sociohistorical creation - especially legalization ensuring dependency of youth in 20th century (Mead)

Question 3

Cohort effects

Answer 3

effects due to a person’s date of birth, era, or generation, but not chronological age

Question 4

Millennials

Answer 4

the generation born after 1980

1. ethnic diversity
2. connection to technology

Question 5

stereotype

Answer 5

a generalization that reflects our impressions and beliefs about a broad group of people

Question 6

Adolescent generalization gap

Answer 6

Adelson’s concept of generalizations about adolescents based on information regarding a limited, often highly visible group of adolescents

Question 7

positive qualities desired in youth

Answer 7

Competence, Confidence, Connection, Character, and Compassion

Question 8

Social Policy

Answer 8

a national government’s course of action designed to influence the welfare of its citizens

Question 9

biological processes

Answer 9

physical changes in an individual’s body

Question 10

cognitive processes

Answer 10

changes in an individual’s thinking and intelligence

Question 11

Socioemotional processes

Answer 11

changes in an individual’s personality, emotions, relationships with other people, and social contexts

Question 12

adolescence

Answer 12

developmental period of transition from childhood to adulthood. 10/13-late teens

Question 13

emerging adulthood

Answer 13

18-25, characterized by experimentation and exploration

Question 14

continuity- discontinuity issue

Answer 14

debate over whether development involves gradual change (continuity) or distinct stages (discontinuity)

Question 15

early-later experience issue

Answer 15

the degree to which early experiences or later experiences are the key determinants of development

Question 16

Theory

Answer 16

an interrelated, coherent set of ideas that helps explain phenomena and make predictions

Question 17

psychoanalytic theories

Answer 17

theories that describe development as primarily unconscious and heavily colored by emotion

Question 18

social cognitive theory

Answer 18

the view that behavior, environment, and cognition are the key factors in development

Question 19

eclectic theoretical orientation

Answer 19

an orientation that does not follow any one theoretical approach but rather selects from each theory whatever is considered the best in it

Question 20

Experience Sampling Method (ESM)

Answer 20

paging participants at random times

Question 21

ethnic gloss

Answer 21

use of an ethnic label such as African American or Latino in a superficial way that portrays an ethnic group as being more homogenous than it really is.

Question 22

Theory of Recapitulation

Answer 22

each individual passes through stages that correspond to those that occurred during the history of mankind