Midterm #2 Q's 35-65 Flashcards
Parental Monitoring
Parent’s ongoing awareness of what their teens are doing, with whom and where.
Gender Role
A pattern of behavior that society assigns to either men or women.
The psychosocial quest during adolescence
a search for consistent understanding of oneself
Erikson’s ultimate goal of adolescence
Identity achievement
Monitoring the Future found what % of HS students had tried MJ?
42%
Erikson’s beliefs on the role of politics in identity development.
Political identity meant aligning oneself with a particular political party.
Project DARE
Drug Abuse Resistance Educaiton
The condition that serves to inoculate adolescents from bad behavior.
Feeling valued by adults.
More likely to use condemns: adolescents or older adults?
Adolescents
Ways for adolescents to legitimize identity moratorium.
Military service, college
Erikson’s main conflict for adolescence:
Identity vs role confusion
peer pressure
encouragement to conform to one’s peers in dress and behavior
- Foreclosure
- Diffusion
- Moratorium
- Identity Achievement
- premature formation of identity based on parent’s views or society as a whole
- ?
- choosing a socially acceptable way to postpone identity achievement decisions
- the point at which a person understands themselves as a unique individual in accordance with past experiences and future plans.
Gender vs sexual orientation.
Gender refers to personal identification as male or female and sex orientation refers to romantic interest in same or opposite sex (or both….Nick)
When does child-parent conflict usually peak?
Early adolescence
Baumrind’s parenting styles. Most and least effective.
Authoritarian, permissive and authoritative parenting. Authoritative is most effective and permissive is least effective.
The age of emerging adulthood.
18-25 thought not always clearly defined.
serial monogamy
having one sexual partner at a time for long periods of time.
Emerging adults vs older generation in terms of sexual partners and # of babies.
Emerging adults have more sexual partners and fewer babies than the previous generation.
Frequency of STI’s in emerging adults.
Over half! (stop banging each other, people!)
The physical risks taken by emerging adults.
fighting in wars, extreme sports, edgework, drug usage, reckless driving.
Labouvie-Vief’s description of cognitive development.
Relativizing (considering things in relation to each other as well as the balance of logic and emotion) thinking emerges.
Frequency of mood disorders in emerging adults
15%
The type of bickering between teens and their parents.
Petty and usually meaningless.
Erikson’s primary prereq for intimacy in emerging adults
and where intimacy is found
- Willingness to self-sacrifice
2. marriage, parenthood, friendship, partnership, other concrete affiliations.
Sternberg’s Triangular Love Theory
Love is based on 3 components, passion, commitment and intimacy, and their relative presence or absence in a relationship.
The 7 forms of love and their parts
- Liking: I
- Infatuation: P
- Empty love: C
- Romantic love: I and P
- Fatuous love: P and C
- Compassionate love: I and C
- Consummate love: I, C and P
Cohabitation; its effects on marriage success; % of emerging adults
- to live with an unrelated person (usually romantic partner)
- increases likelihood of divorce, 60%
The extent emerging adults rely on parents for financial support
Varies but many emerging adults receive help from their parents in the form of cash, rent money, college assistance or other financial support.
