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adolescent dev.
the study of adolescence
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| storm-and-stress view | G. Stanley Hall's concept that adolescence is a turbulent time charged with conflict and mood swings. |
| inventionist view | adolescence is a sociohistorical creation. important to this view is the circumstances at the start of the 20th century-legislation ensured the dependency of youth & made their move on the economic sphere more manageable. |
| stereotype | a generalization that reflects our impressions and beliefs about a broad group of people. All stereotypes refer to an image of what they typical member of a particular group is like. |
| adolescent generalization gap | Adelson's concept of generalizations about adolescents based on information about a limited, highly visible group of adolescents. |
| contexts | the settings in which development occurs. These settings are influenced by historical, economic, social, and cultural factors. |
| social policy | a national government's course of action designed to influence the welfare of its citizens |
| generational inequity | the unfair treatment of younger members of an aging society, in which older adults pile up advantages by receiving inequitably large allocations of resources, such as social security and medicare. |
| development | the pattern of change that begins at conception and continues through the life span. most development involves growth, although it also includes decay (as in death and dying) |
| biological processes | physical changes in an individual's body. |
| cognitive processes | changes in an individual's thinking and intelligence. |
| socioeconomical process | changes in an individual's personality, emotions, relationships with other people, and social contexts. |
| prenatal period | the time from conception to birth. |
| infancy | the developmental period that extends from birth to 18 or 24 months of age |
| early childhood | the developmental period extending from the end of infancy to about 5 or 6 years of age; sometimes called the preschool years. |
| middle and late childhood | the developmental period extending from about 6 to about 10 or 11 years of age; sometimes called the elementary school years. |
| adolescence | the developmental period of transition from childhood to adulthood; it involves biological, cognitive, and socioemotional changes. |
| early adolescence | the developmental period that corresponds roughly to the middle school or junior high school years and includes most pubertal change. |
| late adolescence | approximately the latter half of the second decade of life. Career interests, dating, and identity exploration are often more pronounced in late adolescence than in early adolescence. |
| early adulthood | the developmental period beginning in the late teens or early twenties and lasting trhough the thirties |
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