Chapter 1: Inroduction

Question 1

What does the social Ecological Model by Brofenbrenner consist of?

What are the 5 systems?

Answer 1

1. Microsystem (Family, School Peers)
2. Mesosystem (Home and school influences)
3. Exosystem (School system, Mass media, Neighbourhood, Social Services)
4. Macrosystem (Cultural Practices, Values, Beliefs)
5. Chronosystem (Time)

Question 2

In Ancient Greece, How were adolescents viewed? What was the age range for adolescents?

How did ancient greece (Plato/Aristotle) describe adolescents?

Answer 2

• Adolescents were seen to develop the capacity to reason
• Plato believed to delay education in math and science until adolescent
• Age of adolescent was 7-14 years old

Question 3

In Ancient Greece, what did youth describe? how was it defined?

Answer 3

Passion and sexual excitment

Question 4

What ability did Aristotle believe adolescents had?

Answer 4

Young adults with the ability to make choices in life

Question 5

How did society view adolescents in Ancient Greece? were they well understood by the general public?

Wat job did they have?

Answer 5

• Young adults forced to become soldiers
• ## They were not well understood

Question 6

What were adolescents sent off to do during early christian times? Did they succeed?

Answer 6

Adolescents were sent on a crusade lead by a twelve year old
They did not succeed

Question 7

Between the 1500’s-1890’s, what was the life cycle service for adolescents?

What did young adults experience when they left their homes?

Answer 7

• Late teens (20’s): Engaged in domestic/farm service and apprenticeships
• Moved out of the family home to live with “master”

Question 8

Between 1890-1920, How were laws changed in order to include and futher the adolescent knowledge? What term was coined?

Education?

Answer 8

• Changes in child labouur laws, required adolescents be sent to school and study during the period of adolescents
• Age of adolescents was coiend

Question 9

How did the societal view of adolescents change during the 19th and 20th century? What did society build to accept the new definitons of adolescents?

What tests were designed? What was modernized?

Answer 9

• Industrialization and Urbanization came to fruition
• Modernization of education with regards to the new studies of the minds of adolescents
• First intelligence tests within different developmental age groups
• Emergence of organized activities (YMCA)

Question 10

Who is Stanely Hall? Why is he important? What did his research prove?

He was in a movement… what was that movement about?

Answer 10

• 1st Psychology Ph.D. in the US
• APA founder and “Father of adolescence”
• Founded the “Child study movement” which was research on child/adolescent development and improvement of conditions in family, school and workplace

Question 11

What ages did Stanley Hall dub as adolescence?

Answer 11

14-24 years old

Question 12

What is Stanley Halls theory of recapitulation?

Answer 12

Development parallels the evolution of the species
(not supported)

Question 13

What is Stanley Halls theory of storm and stress?

Answer 13

Periods of biologically-based turmoil
- Raging hormones

One of the first to suspect the affect and influence of hormones on an adolescent brain

Question 14

In current day, what is the definiton of Adolescent? What are the three stages of adolescences?

Answer 14

• Period between childhood and adulthood
  Stages:
• Early: ~11 - 14 years old
• Middle: ~15 - 18 years old
• Late: ~19 - 22 years old

Question 15

With each passing decade, what is the phenomenon that occurs with the age of adolescences?

Answer 15

The age of adolscence becomes younger and younger