Psych 412 Exam #3 Flashcards
In regards to status changes, what is an interpersonal status?
Adult titles and new social relationships
Expect to take care of and present a proper role model to younger members
In regards to status changes, what is a political status?
When you are able to participate in community decision-making (being able to vote, being on a committee)
Expectation to serve their communities
In regards to status changes, what is an economic status?
When one is permitted to work and control of income
Permitted to own land, but maintain it
Contribute to community (taxes)
In regards to status changes, what is a legal status?
Participate in activities reserved for adults (drinking, voting, smoking, gambling, etc)
Subject to new laws and justice system
What are the two stages that Piaget based on cognitive development?
Heteronomous Morality ages 4-7
Autonomous Morality ages 10-12
What is Heteronomous Morality?
Ages 4-7: When you think about rules, you think they are handed down by some higher power/authority figure and they are strict rules. They think these rules can’t be changed.
“You can’t change the rules! The rules were made by my mother!”
What is Autonomous Morality?
Reached at age 10-12: Realize that if there is a consensus we can change the rules
“Jenny broke the cups by accident, that wasn’t as bad as when Billy broke a cup while trying to steal.”
According to Kohlberg, what are the three moral reasoning stages?
Preconventional, Conventional, and Postconventional
What is the Preconventional Moral Stage?
Focused on the individual, it is based on perceptions of odds od external reward or punishment.
What is the Conventional Moral Stage?
Focused on the relationships with others, Right is what agrees with rules established by tradition and authoritative figures.
What is the Postconventional Stage?
Maintaining principles that are universal, what is correct is based upon universal principles
What is the gender critique according to Gilligan? (Male _____ orientation vs Female ____ orientation)
Male (Justice orientation) vs Female (Caring orientation)
Results from research on gender difference: NO gender response difference
In regards to the Worldview Approach, what are the 3 “Ethics”? And what does the research show?
Autonomy, Community, and Divinity
Research shows that emerging adults in USA rely mostly on the ethics of autonomy.
In regards to the Worldview Approach, what is Autonomy?
Individual is primary moral authority having the right to do as they wish as long as their behavior does no harm to others.
In regards to the Worldview Approach, what is Community?
Responsibilities of roles in family, community are basis for moral judgments.
In regards to the Worldview Approach, what is Divinity?
Individual is a spiritual entity subject to the prescriptions of a divine authority.
When does the generation gap occur?
It occurs when older and younger people fail to understand each other because of their different experiences, behavior, and habits.
What G. Stanley Hall think about Parent-Adolescent conflict?
He strongly believed in the states of storm and stress
What did Anna Freud think about the Parent Adolescent Conflict?
She believed in healthy detachment from parents.
What did Anna Freud and Stanley Hall believe about Parent adolescent conflict?
They believed that it is inevitable and universal that each and every adolescent will go against their parents and cause conflict with them. Few scholars believe this anymore.
What does research show about Parent Adolescent Conflict? And, what can it be associated with?
Research shows that the majority of adolescents will agree with their parents, and vice versa, on morals and views in life. In addition, the majority also trust, admire and like their parents.
Conflict can be associated with mental health issues in adolescents.
What was the Judith Smetana Study?
The study investigated perspective of parent and adolescents on issues of parents and their rule making.
The sample was 100 teens with their mothers. Each were assessed separately two different times.
What was Judith Smetana measuring?
She was measuring if both the parent and teen answered questions related to authority and if they fell into one of several contexts.
In regards to the Judith Smetana Study, what was the Moral Context?
Items related closely to ethical choices and values.
In regards to the Judith Smetana Study, what was the conventional Context?
Items related closely to behavior that is socially appropriate
In regards to the Judith Smetana Study, what was the Prudential Context?
Issues related closely to health
In regards to the Judith Smetana Study, what was the Friendship context?
Items closely related to decisions made with peers and friends.
In regards to the Judith Smetana Study, what was the Personal Context?
Items that only had consequences for the individual.
In regards to the Judith Smetana Study what were the two questions that were asked?
Legitimacy: Can the parent make a rule on this topic?
Obligation: Is the teen obligated to follow the rule made by the parent on the issue even if they do not agree with it?
Summarize Smetana’s study.
- Most teens and parents agree that parents setting rules and teens obeying them is appropriate when it came to moral, conventional, and prudential issues.
- The biggest differences in perspectives showed up on friendship and personal issues.
- These results show that one could assume conflicts between teens and their parents are for the most part related to friends and personal issues.
What are the differences in perspectives in Smetana’s study?
Adults: Look at conflict as issues of the social environment
Teens: Look at conflict as an issue of personal choice.
What do Family System Theorists believe?
They believe in maintaining balance.
What are the transformations in Family Relations?
Teens start to establish more active roles in the family unit during adolescence.
What does the phrase “Adolescent’s Parents at Midlife” mean?
Financial burdens are prominent at this time
Midlife Crisis often occurs in parents.
Describe Indulgent (permissive) parents.
- High responsive
- Low demand
- Parent’s perspective is a reference to the child. However, discipline is a burden to the adolescents freedom
- Love Withdrawal- is the temporary or simple threat of taking away support and warmth with the main reason being to change bad behaviors.
Describe the Indifferent (uninvolved or disengaged) parent.
- Low responsiveness
- Low demand
- Parent’s perspective is to view the adolescent as a bother to their own personal life.
Describe the Authoritarian (disciplinarian or militaristic) parent.
- Low responsiveness
- High Demand
- Parent’s perspective is that being in control is the main issue, and adolescent cannot be trusted regarding anything
Describe the Authoritative parent.
- High responsiveness
- High demand
- Parent’s perspective is that they can bring up an adolescent to be will rounded and secure in their relationships and in life.
- Although demand is high, it is different in type when compared to the authoritarian style.
In regards to siblings, what are the positives?
- Siblings hold various and many different roles for us
- They help us create the internal working model for social interactions in life.
- They help us to learn rules and how to act in social situation. However, they can negatively show us how to act in other situations such as with alcohol and risky behavior.
In regards to siblings, what are the negatives?
The conflict seen between siblings increases during adolescence and decreases during late adolescence.
The cause of the decrease later in adolescence is because the amount of time spent around your siblings decreases as age increases.
The cognitive changes in the late adolescence allows the siblings to see other’s perspectives on issues
What is Shirley McGuire’s Sibling Typology?
Affect-Intense: High warmth/High hostility
Harmonious: High warmth/Low hostility
Hostile: Low warmth/High hostility
Uninvolved: Low warmth/Low hostility
What are the three origins of peer groups?
Educational origins, Distinct Youth Culture, and Rise of the Youth Culture
In regards to the origins of peer groups what are the educational origins?
Age segregation or age grading is grouping students together by their chronological age
Peter Gray’s Study- mixing between ages generally occurs in early adolescence at about age 13
In regards to the origins of peer groups what are the distinct youth culture?
Talcott Pearson and the concept of youth culture (described as a group of individuals that have an antagonistic value system towards adult values).
Hedonism and irresponsibility
In regards to the origins of peer groups what are the Rise of the youth culture?
First became a widespread phenomenon in the 1920s.
What are the 5 stages from adolescence to emerging adulthood?
- Same sex cliques
- Boys and girls cliques or groups start spending some time together
- Gender cliques break down when the leaders of the clique start forming romantic relationships
- The other members of the clique follow in the leaders footsteps
- Males and females pair off as they establish more serious relationships