Intro to Adolescence Flashcards
What is the maximum age range for an adolescent (Remembering that there are MANY different age ranges considered ‘adolescent’).
9-24 (I prefer 11-20 or so).
How does age stratification function in the Western education system?
It serves to divide learners into peer groups determined by age, typically within one and a half years of each other.
Describe physical development in the adolescent phase and the adult phase.
There is a growth spurt during adolescence, and a full adult no longer grows in the same way.
What are the boundaries of sexual development in adolescence?
Appearance of secondary sexual characteristics followed by the ability to reproduce.
How do familial relationships change during adolescence?
The parents begin to grant the child more freedom, culminating in the child’s independence.
If I am beginning a quest to find my identity, I am probably…
An adolescent. Or a hero in an awesome story, idk.
When I achieve intimacy with but am not strongly influenced by my peers, I have probably moved on from adolescence into ___
Adulthood.
I have just received my Bachelor’s Degree. Is it possible for me to be an adolescent?
Theoretically, yes. But only if you’re Really Good At School.
In the middle ages, adolescents were viewed as miniature adults (T/F)
True
Faith-based understandings of development were highly prevalent in the middle ages (T/F)
True
If you were an adolescent in the middle ages, where would you learn to work?
Far away from your family with a master of a given trade.
Who argued that childhood and adolescence are life stages that should be valued in themselves?
J-J Rousseau
What time period were the first schools established in Canada?
1850-70s
Teacher training formally began in ____ in Canada.
1846
Who is the father of adolescence?
Stanley Hall
Name the title of Stanley Hall’s 1904 text that reshaped understanding of adolescent development in Canada.
Adolescence
According to Hall, what is adolescence like?
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
By 1911, 60% of youth in Canada aged 14-19 were attending high schools. (T/F)
False. 50% were attending.
600% more individuals graduated from high school in 1930 than in 1900. (T/F)
True
From 1910 to 1930 the number of 10 to 15-year-olds who
were gainfully employed dropped about ____
75%
What is the Adolescent Generalization Gap?
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.
How are ‘good’ adolescents often defined?
Negatively, i.e. by what they are NOT doing rather than their positive actions or attributes.
