[Week 7] Adolescent Development

Question 1

Crowds

Answer 1

Adolescent peer groups characterized by shared reputations or images.

Question 2

Deviant peer contagion

Answer 2

The spread of problem behaviors within groups of adolescents.

Question 3

Differential susceptibility

Answer 3

Genetic factors that make individuals more or less responsive to environmental experiences.

Question 4

Foreclosure

Answer 4

Individuals commit to an identity without exploration of options.

Question 5

Homophily

Answer 5

Adolescents tend to associate with peers who are similar to themselves.

Question 6

Identity achievement

Answer 6

Individuals have explored different options and then made commitments.

Question 7

Identity diffusion

Answer 7

Adolescents neither explore nor commit to any roles or ideologies.

Question 8

Moratorium

Answer 8

State in which adolescents are actively exploring options but have not yet made identity commitments.

Question 9

Psychological control

Answer 9

Parents’ manipulation of and intrusion into adolescents’ emotional and cognitive world through invalidating adolescents’ feelings and pressuring them to think in particular ways.