Chapter 10: Adolescence: The Social World Flashcards
Role Confusion
A situation in which people do not seem to know or care about their identity. (Sometimes called identity
diffusion.)
Foreclosure
Erikson’s term for premature identity formation,
when a person adopts parents’ or society’s roles and values wholesale,
without questioning or analysis.
Moratorium
In Erikson’s identity stage, a socially acceptable way to postpone achievement. Going to college is a common example.
Gender Identity
A person’s acceptance of the roles and behaviors that are associated with
the biological categories of male and female.
Parental Monitoring
Parents’ ongoing awareness of what their children are doing, where, and
with whom.
Deviancy
When one person shows another how to rebel against authority or social norms.
Sexual Orientation
A person’s sexual and romantic attraction to others of the same sex, the other sex, or both sexes.
Familism
The belief that family members should
support one another, sacrificing individual freedom and success, if
necessary, because the family is more important.
Rumination
Repeatedly thinking and talking about
past experiences and possibilities.
adolescence-limited offender
A person whose criminal activity
occurs only during adolescence.
life-course-persistent offender
A person whose criminal activity continues throughout life; a career criminal.
Generational Forgetting
The idea that each new generation forgets what the previous generation
learned.
