Exam 4’

Question 1

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

Answer 1

88%

Question 2

What are the types of traditional media?

Answer 2

TV, music, videos, books, magazines, newspapers

Question 3

Cultivation theory

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Social Learning Theory

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Mean World Syndrome

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Media Practice Model

Answer 6

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

Question 7

What are the 5 uses of media?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Super-Peer

Answer 8

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

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Television

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Adolescence

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Function

Question 12

Internalizing Problems

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Externalizing Problems

Answer 13

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

Question 14

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

Answer 14

16 to 24

Question 15

What are the stages of the Graduated Drivers License?

Answer 15

Learning License
Restricted License
Full License

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Whites and Latinos

Question 17

When does substance use peak?

Answer 17

Emerging adulthood

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Declines

Question 19

Experimental Substance Use

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Social Substance Use

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Medicinal Substance Use

Answer 21

Over-the-counter or prescribed self-medication

Question 22

Addictive Substance Use

Answer 22

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

Question 23

The majority of crimes are committed by men aged_____

Answer 23

12 to 25

Question 24

Adolescence-limited delinquents

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Life-course-persistent delinquents

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Peer Contagion

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Major Depressive Disorder

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Depressed Mood

Answer 28

Temporary episodes of sadness ranging from mild to severe

Question 29

Negative Attributes

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Cognitive-behavioral therapy

Answer 30

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

Question 31

When does depressed mood peak?

Answer 31

Adolescence

Question 32

_______ is often effective in treating young people’s depression

Answer 32

Psychotherapy

Question 33

When do suicide attempts tend to occur?

Answer 33

As depression symptoms abate

Question 34

______ are more likely to attempt suicide

Answer 34

Females

Question 35

______ are more likely to actually kill themselves

Answer 35

Males

Question 36

What are the risk factors for suicide?

Answer 36

Depression Family disruption Substance abuse Problems in school or relationships

Question 37

The most effective treatment for suicide and suicidal ideation is

Answer 37

CBT and antidepressants

Question 38

Anorexia Nervosa

Answer 38

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

Question 39

Bulimia

Answer 39

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

Question 40

What are the protective factors associated with resilience?

Answer 40

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

Question 41

What is a concern of social media?

Answer 41

Makes adolescents less social