Chapter 6: Adolescence

Question 1

Rites of passage

Answer 1

Ceremonies that demarcate the transition these of becoming man or woman.

Question 2

Gonads

Answer 2

Ovaries and testicles

Question 3

Sex hormones

Answer 3

Androgens, progestins, and estrogens

Question 4

Puberty

Answer 4

The years during which adolescents become capable of reproduction

Question 5

Primary sex characteristics

Answer 5

Those directly related to the reproductive organs and external genitalia.

Question 6

Secondary sex characteristics

Answer 6

Those not directly related to the reproductive organs and external genitalia (enlarged breaths and hips for girls, fanciful hair for men).

Question 7

Menarche

Answer 7

Onset of menstruation

Question 8

Spermarche

Answer 8

Onset ability to ejaculate

Question 9

Identity

Answer 9

Combination of what you’re born with and into

Question 10

Kohlberg: Post conventional moral reasoning

Answer 10

Morality based on moral principles that transcend social rules but that may never go beyond conventional morality or morality based on social rule.

Moral principals that transcend one’s own society: individual ethics, societal rights, and universal principles of right and wrong.

Question 11

Social identity

Answer 11

Made up of several elements derived from interaction with other people and social systems.

Question 12

Dispositions

Answer 12

Self described aspects of identify

Question 13

Physical characteristics

Answer 13

Ones physical traits

Question 14

Generalized other

Answer 14

George Herbert Mead suggested that individuals create generalized other to represent how others are likely to view and respond to them.

Question 15

Individualism

Answer 15

The development of a self or identity that is unique and separate.

Question 16

Acquaintance rape

Answer 16

Forced, manipulated, o coerced sexual contact by someone know to victim.

Question 17

Statutory rape

Answer 17

When one individual is too young or otherwise unable to consent.

Question 18

Genital stage

Answer 18

Freud. To developer libido capable of reproduction and sexual intimacy.

Question 19

Identity versus role diffusion

Answer 19

Erickson. To find one’s place in the world through self-certainty versus apathy, role experimentation verses negative identity, and anticipation of achievement versus work paralysis.

Question 20

Ego identity status

Answer 20

Marcia. To develop one of these identity statuses: identity diffusion (no exploration of or commitment to roles and values), foreclosure (commitment made to roles and values without exploration), moratorium (exploration of roles and values without commitment), or identity achievement (exploration of roles and values followed by commitment).

Question 21

Formal operational thought

Answer 21

Piaget. To develop the capacity for abstract problem formulation, hypothesis development, and solution testing.

Question 22

Separation from parents:

Functional independence

Answer 22

Being able to function without parents

Question 23

Separation from parents:

Attitudinal independence

Answer 23

Developing one’s own set of values and beliefs

Question 24

Separation from parents:

Emotional independence

Answer 24

Not being dependent on parents for approval, intimacy, and emotional support.

Question 25

Separation from parents:

Conflictual independence

Answer 25

Being able to recognize one’s separateness from parents without guilt, resentment, anger, or other negative emotions.