Intro to Adolescence

Question 1

What is the maximum age range for an adolescent (Remembering that there are MANY different age ranges considered ‘adolescent’).

Answer 1

9-24 (I prefer 11-20 or so).

Question 2

How does age stratification function in the Western education system?

Answer 2

It serves to divide learners into peer groups determined by age, typically within one and a half years of each other.

Question 3

Describe physical development in the adolescent phase and the adult phase.

Answer 3

There is a growth spurt during adolescence, and a full adult no longer grows in the same way.

Question 4

What are the boundaries of sexual development in adolescence?

Answer 4

Appearance of secondary sexual characteristics followed by the ability to reproduce.

Question 5

How do familial relationships change during adolescence?

Answer 5

The parents begin to grant the child more freedom, culminating in the child’s independence.

Question 6

If I am beginning a quest to find my identity, I am probably…

Answer 6

An adolescent. Or a hero in an awesome story, idk.

Question 7

When I achieve intimacy with but am not strongly influenced by my peers, I have probably moved on from adolescence into ___

Answer 7

Adulthood.

Question 8

I have just received my Bachelor’s Degree. Is it possible for me to be an adolescent?

Answer 8

Theoretically, yes. But only if you’re Really Good At School.

Question 9

According to Plato, children and early adolescents should study…

Answer 9

• reading and writing (from ages 7-10)
• literature (from ages 10-13)
• music (from ages 13-16) as they develop advanced reasoning

Question 10

Adolescence is a period where reasoning
only gradually becomes stronger than the
passions according to _______

Answer 10

Aristotle

Question 11

In the middle ages, adolescents were viewed as miniature adults (T/F)

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Faith-based understandings of development were highly prevalent in the middle ages (T/F)

Answer 12

True

Question 13

If you were an adolescent in the middle ages, where would you learn to work?

Answer 13

Far away from your family with a master of a given trade.

Question 14

Who argued that childhood and adolescence are life stages that should be valued in themselves?

Answer 14

J-J Rousseau

Question 15

What time period were the first schools established in Canada?

Answer 15

1850-70s

Question 16

Teacher training formally began in ____ in Canada.

Answer 16

1846

Question 17

Who is the father of adolescence?

Answer 17

Stanley Hall

Question 18

Name the title of Stanley Hall’s 1904 text that reshaped understanding of adolescent development in Canada.

Answer 18

Adolescence

Question 19

According to Hall, what is adolescence like?

Answer 19

It was a period where one went from being beast-like to civilized; one is biologically constrained to be in “storm and stress” throughout this period

Question 20

By 1911, 60% of youth in Canada aged 14-19 were attending high schools. (T/F)

Answer 20

False. 50% were attending.

Question 21

600% more individuals graduated from high school in 1930 than in 1900. (T/F)

Answer 21

True

Question 22

From 1910 to 1930 the number of 10 to 15-year-olds who
were gainfully employed dropped about ____

Answer 22

75%

Question 23

What is the Adolescent Generalization Gap?

Answer 23

Widespread generalizations about adolescents based on information about a limited, often highly visible group of adolescents. In the 21st century this is perpetuated via the internet.

Question 24

How are ‘good’ adolescents often defined?

Answer 24

Negatively, i.e. by what they are NOT doing rather than their positive actions or attributes.