Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

Psych 320 Exam 3 > Study guide cards > Flashcards

Study guide cards Flashcards

You may prefer our related Brainscape-certified flashcards:
Psychology 101 flashcards GRE® Psychology flashcards
1
Q

How does puberty influence identity development?

A

Adolescents are changing dramatically on the outside, they understandably have questions about changes that are taking place on the inside

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

What are possible selves?

A

The various identities an adolescent might imagine for him or herself

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

What do possible selves stimulate?

A

heightened self-consciousness and experimentation with different identities

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

What is the term for “the extent to which an individual is able to and inclind to think about the potential consequences of decisions and choices”?

A

Future orientation

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Teens who have a stronger future orientation have…?

A
  • better mental health
  • less risky behavior
  • less delinquency
  • less impulsive behavior
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

What is the term for “The collection of traits and attributes that individuals use to describe or characterize themselves”?

A

self-conceptions

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

What is self-esteem?

A

The degree to which individuals feel positively or negatively about themselves

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

What is sense of identity?

A

The extent to which individuals feel secure about who they are and who they are becoming

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

What is differentiation in teens?

A

when teens are more likely to describe what they are like in different situations rather than overall generalization

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

How is organization in adolescence?

A
  • Teens are likely to organize and integrate different aspects of their self-concept into a more logical, coherent whole
  • Teens will attempt to group what appear to be discrepant bits of info into more highly organized statements
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

What is false-self behavior?

A

Behavior that intentionally presents a false impression to others

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

when do teens engage in false-self behavior?

A
  • Teens are most likely to behave inauthentically in romantic situations and with classmates
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Teens who report less emotional support from parents and peers have low…..

A

self-esteem

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

What are is the 5 factor model of personality?

A
  • extraversion
    -agreeableness
  • conscientious
  • neuroticism
  • openness to experience
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

What does neurotism refer to?

A

how anxious or tense a person is

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

What is the term for when teens worry about their self-image?

A

self-consciousness

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

What is self-image stability?

A

how much teens self-image changes from day to day

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

What race has a higher self-esteem?

A

black girls have a higher self-esteem and less of a decline in self-esteem over adolescence

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

What is autonomy?

A

The psychological domain concerning the development and expression of independence

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

What does puberty have to do with autonomy?

A
  • Triggers changes in young person’s emotional relationships are home
  • Turns away from emotional support from parents towards peers
  • Drives teen away from exclusive emotional dependence on the family
  • Changes in stature and physical appearance at puberty may provoke changes in how much autonomy the young person is granted by parents and teachers
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

What are the associations between cognitive change and the development of autonomy?

A

Important prerequisites to the development of a system of values based on one’s own sense of right and wrong, not just on rules and regulations handed down by parents or other authority figures

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

How do social roles influence the development of autonomy?

A
  • Social roles and activities during adolescence are bound to raise concerns related to independence, as the teen moves into new positions that demand increasing degrees of responsibility and self-reliance
  • New roles place the teen in situations that require and stimulate the independent decision making
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

What are the 3 types of autonomy?

A
  • emotional
  • behavioral
  • cognitive
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

What is emotional autonomy?

A

The establishment of more adultlike and less childish close relationships with family members and peers

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
Q

What is behavioral autonomy?

A

The capacity to make independent decisions and to follow through with them

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
26
Q

What is cognitive autonomy?

A

The establishment of an independent set of values, opinions, and beliefs

27
Q

What is detachment?

A

In psychoanalytic theory, the process through which adolescents sever emotional attachments to their parents or other authority figures

28
Q

What is individuation?

A

The progressive sharpening of an individual’s sense of being an autonomous, independent person

29
Q

When does individuation begin?

A

during infancy and continues into late adolescence, involves a gradual, progressive sharpening of one’s sense of self as autonomous, competent, and separate from one’s parents

30
Q

How does the parent-child relationship change during individuation ?

A

It entails relinquishing childish dependencies on parents in favor of a more mature, more responsible, and less dependent relationship

31
Q

Teens who establish a healthy sense of autonomy accept what…

A

responsibility for their choices and actions

32
Q

Why is maintaining relationships with parents important when being autonomous?

A

it makes you psychologically healthier

33
Q

What are the two general processes of individuation?

A

-puberty is the main catalyst
- stimulated by their cognitive development

34
Q

Why do people think that puberty is the main catalyst of individuation ?

A

Changes in physical appearance provoke changes in the way that adolescents are viewed which provokes changes in ways they interact with parents

35
Q

Why do others believe that individuation is stimulated by their cognitive development?

A

The development of emotional autonomy in adolescence may be provoked by young people’s development of more sophisticated understandings of themselves and their parents

36
Q

What is psychological control?

A

Parenting that attempts to control the adolescents emotions and opinions

37
Q

What does psychological control lead to?

A
  • Children who have difficulty individuating from them
  • Have depression, anxiety, aggression, and feelings of incompetence and dependence
  • Less psychologically mature and well-like during mid-adolescence
38
Q

What do enhanced role-taking capabilities permit individuals to do?

A

Permits teens to consider another person’s opinion while taking into account that person’s point of view

39
Q

How do the new decision-making abilities change teens?

A

Teens become more likely to consider both the risks and benefits associated with the decisions they make and more likely to weigh the long-term consequences of their choices

40
Q

T or F: development varies across the cultures

A

true

41
Q

which race has earlier expectations for adolescent autonomy?

A

white indiviudals

42
Q

What is increased autonomy strongly assoicated with emotion wise?

A
  • better emotional functioning among american youth
43
Q

What is the first trend in cognitive autonomy development?

A

Adolescents become increasingly abstract in the way they think about moral, political, and religious issues

44
Q

What is the 2nd trend in cognitive autonomy development?

A

During adolescence, beliefs become increasingly rooted in general principles

45
Q

What is the 3rd trend in cognitive autonomy development?

A

Beliefs become increasingly founded in the young person’s own values, not merely in a system of values passed on by their parents or other authority figures

46
Q

What is prosocial behavior?

A

Behaviors intended to help others

47
Q

What does moral reasoning emphasize?

A

shifts in the type of reasoning that individuals use in making moral decisions rather than changes in the content of the decisions they reach or the actions they take as a result

48
Q

What are the 3 stages of moral reasoning?

A
  • pre conventional
  • conventional
    post-conventional
49
Q

What is preconventional moral reasoning

A
  • Typical of children and is characterized by reasoning that is based on rewards and punishments associated with different courses of action
50
Q

When is preconventional moral reasoning the most dominant?

A

early childhood
-1st level

51
Q

What is the 2nd level to moral reasoning?

A

Conventional moral reasoning

52
Q

What is the conventional moral reasoning?

A

Characterized by reasoning that is based on the rules and conventions of society

53
Q

When does the conventional moral reasoning occur?

A

late childhood and early adolesc

54
Q

What is the last moral reasoning ?

A

Postconventional

55
Q

what is psotconventional moral reasoning?

A

During which society’s rules and conventions are seen as relative and subjective rather than as authoritative

56
Q

Who is more prosocial girls or boys?

A

girls
because parents emphasize more time teaching them it

57
Q

What is civic engagement?

A
  • involvement in political and community affairs
  • Participation in conventional and alternative political activities
  • Engaging in community service
58
Q

What is service learning?

A

The process of learning through involvement in community service

59
Q

What are some changes in political thinking?

A
  • Becomes more abstract
  • Political thinking during adolescence becomes less authoritarian and less rigid
  • People often develop a roughly coherent and consistent set of attitudes that does not appear before this age and that is based on a set of overarching principle
60
Q

What is religiosity?

A

-The degree to which one engages in religious practices

61
Q

What is spirituality ?

A

The degree to which one places importance on the quest for answers to questions about God and the meaning of life

62
Q

What is more important for identity development? (religiosity or spirituality)

A

Religiosity because it involves identification with a particular religious group

63
Q

Teens who are more religious tend to be more?

A
  • adjusted
    -less depressed
  • Less likely to have premarital sex
  • Less likely to use drugs
  • Less likely to engage in delinquency
64
Q
A

Psych 320 Exam 3 (6 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2024 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions