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1
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What percentage of adolescents aged 13-17 have access to digital devices?

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88%

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What are the types of traditional media?

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TV, music, videos, books, magazines, newspapers

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Cultivation theory

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People who are regularly exposed to media for long periods of time are more likely to perceive the world’s social realties as they are presented by the media they consume, which affects their attitudes and behaviors

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Social Learning Theory

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Adolescents learn behaviors by experiencing, observing, and interacting with individuals in their environment

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Mean World Syndrome

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Revolves around the idea that we each develop a cognitive bias where we start to see the world as more dangerous than it actually is

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Media Practice Model

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Each adolescent’s identity motivates the selection of media products - paying attention to certain media products leads to interaction with those productions. Adolescents engage in application of the media content they have chosen

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What are the 5 uses of media?

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  1. Entertainment
  2. Identity Formation
  3. High Sensation
  4. Coping
  5. Youth Culture Identification
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Super-Peer

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Hypothesizes that the media can exert influence in the same way as teenagers’ peers do, but in a more powerful way

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What is shown to cause aggression in children, but not adolescents?

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Television

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Research shows there’s a correlation between relational violence in TV and relational violence in

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Adolescence

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Keeping in touch with friends and making new ones is a ____ of social media.

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Function

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Internalizing Problems

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Group of emotional symptoms turned inward to toward an individual (causes depression, anxiety, eating disorders)

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Externalizing Problems

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Behaviors that harm others as opposed to disciplining oneself (delinquency, substance use, unprotected sex)

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Americans aged ________ have the highest rate of automobile accidents, injuries, and fatalities

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16 to 24

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15
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What are the stages of the Graduated Drivers License?

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Learning License
Restricted License
Full License

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In the US the higher rates of substances use in adolescents occurs in____

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Whites and Latinos

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17
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When does substance use peak?

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Emerging adulthood

18
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In recent years there has been _____ in cigarette smoking, binge drinking, marijuana usem and amphetamine use in adolescents

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Declines

19
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Experimental Substance Use

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When a person tries a drug or substance once or twice out of curiosity

20
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Social Substance Use

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Uses substances on a social basis, but has control over desires

21
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Medicinal Substance Use

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Over-the-counter or prescribed self-medication

22
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Addictive Substance Use

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Inability to control the use of legal or illegal drugs or medicine (disease that affects a person’s brain and behavior)

23
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The majority of crimes are committed by men aged_____

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12 to 25

24
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Adolescence-limited delinquents

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Only offend in their teenage years so their crime involvement is temporary (12-25)

25
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Life-course-persistent delinquents

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Offenders who exhibit extreme ADHS, learning disabilities, & antisocial behavior without stability over their lifetime; starts a very young age due to growing up in high risk environment

26
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Peer Contagion

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Mutual influence that occurs between an individual and a peer; refers to transfer of deviant behavior from one adolescent to another

27
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Major Depressive Disorder

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A mental health disorder characterized by persistently depressed mood or loss of interest in activities, causing significant impairment in daily life

28
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Depressed Mood

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Temporary episodes of sadness ranging from mild to severe

29
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Negative Attributes

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Personality signs that lead to negative emotions and create a negative overall perception of a person

30
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Cognitive-behavioral therapy

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A psychosocial intervention that aims to reduce symptoms of various mental health conditions - talk therapy that can help you manage your problems by changing the way you think and behave

31
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When does depressed mood peak?

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Adolescence

32
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_______ is often effective in treating young people’s depression

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Psychotherapy

33
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When do suicide attempts tend to occur?

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As depression symptoms abate

34
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______ are more likely to attempt suicide

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Females

35
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______ are more likely to actually kill themselves

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Males

36
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What are the risk factors for suicide?

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Depression
Family disruption
Substance abuse
Problems in school or relationships

37
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The most effective treatment for suicide and suicidal ideation is

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CBT and antidepressants

38
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Anorexia Nervosa

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An eating disorder causing people to obsess about weight and what they eat. Distorted body image with an unwarranted fear of being overweight

39
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Bulimia

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An eating disorder in which a large quantity of food is consumed in a short period of time, often followed by feelings or guilt or shame

40
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What are the protective factors associated with resilience?

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High intelligence
1 caring adult
Healthy social environment
Religious beliefs & practices

41
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What is a concern of social media?

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Makes adolescents less social

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