Chapter 10 Flashcards
Identity vs Role Confusion
negotiating the complexities of finding one’s own identity is the primary task of adolescence
Identity Achievement
when adolescents have reconsidered the goals and values of their parents and culture (accepting some and discarding some)
Role confusion
opposite of identity achievement, lack of commitment to any goals or value
- sleeping too much, video games etc.
Foreclosure
when they accept traditional values
moratorium
time out that includes some exploration either in breadth or depth
- an adolescent’s choice of socially acceptable way to postpone making identity-achievement decisions
five arenas of identity formation
religious, political, gender, ethnic, vocational
religious identity
some adolescents question religion as their cognitive processes allow for more reflection
identity politics
the tendency to identify and vote for people of one’s own race
vocational identity
envisioning oneself as a worker in a particular occupation
integrated identity
youth maintains their heritage identity while incorporating aspects of the settlement or new country
separated identity
youths maintain their heritage identity while rejecting the settlement identity
national identity
youths reject their heritage identity and replace it with the settlement identity
diffuse identity
youths reject both their heritage and settlement identity
adolescence-limited offender
a person whose criminal activity stops by age 21
closeness within the family
communication, support, connectedness, control
parental monitoring
parental knowledge about each child’s whereabouts, activities and companions
deviancy training
one person shows another how to circumvent adult restrictions
trends in teen births and abortion
births have gone down
use of protection has gone up
teen abortion rate is down
adolescent pregnancy
poverty and lack of education correlate with teenage pregnancy
foreclosure
erikson’s term for premature identity formation, which occurs when an adolescent adopts his or her parents’ or society’s roles and values wholesale, without questioning or analysis
generational forgetting
the idea that each new generation forgets what the previous generation learned
life-course-persistent offender
a person whose criminal activity typically begins in early adolescence and continues throughout life; a career criminal
parasuicide aka attempted/failed suicide
any potentially lethal action against the self that does not result in death
rumination
repeated thinking and talking about past experiences; can contribute to depression
suicidal ideation
thinking about suicide, usually with some serious emotional or intellectual or cognitive overtones
two factors that cause delinquency
- short attention span, hyperactivity, inadequate emotional regulation, slow language, low intelligence, early and severe malnutrition, autistic tendencies etc
- encompasses risk factors - deviant friends, having few connections to school, living in a crowded violent, unstable neighbourhood, not having a job, using drugs and alcohol and having close relatives in jail
life-course-persistent offender
career criminal
adolescence-limited offender
crime starts during puberty up until age 21
variations in drug use
psychoactive drugs - affect the mind
most popular psychoactive drugs
tobacco, alco hol, cannibis
