Chapter 2 Adolescents in Theoretical Context

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the first psychosexual stage in Sigmund Freud’s theory of development: from birth to one year, during which the child’s chief source of pleasure and satisfaction comes from oral activity

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Oral Stage

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“storm and stress”; used to describe the volatile adolescent temperament

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Sturm Und Drang

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the second psychosexual stage in Sigmund Freud’s theory of development: the second year of life, during which the child seeks pleasure and satisfaction through anal activity and the elimination of waste

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Anal Stage

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the third psychosexual stage in Sigmund Freud’s theory of development: from about the fourth to the sixth year, during which the genital area is the chief source of pleasure and satisfaction

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Phallic Stage

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the fourth psychosexual stage stage in Sigmund Freud’s theory of development: from about ages six to twelve, during which sexual interests remain hidden while the child concentrates on school and other activities

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Latency Stage

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the fifth and last psychosexual stage in Sigmund Freud’s theory of development: during which sexual urges result in seeking other persons as sexual objects to relieve sexual tension

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Genital Stage

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the taking on of parental values, beliefs, and behaviors

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Identification

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the formation of personal identity by the development of the self as a unique person separate from parents and others

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Individuation

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Freud’s theory that the structure of personality is composed of the id, ego, and superego and that mental health depends on keeping the balance among them

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Psychoanalytic Theory

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according to Sigmund Freud, those instinctual urges that a person seeks to satisfy according to the pleasure principle

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Id

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according to Sigmund Freud, the rational mind that seeks to satisfy the id in keeping with reality

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Ego

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according to Sigmund Freud, that part of the mind that opposes the desires of the id by enforcing moral restrictions that have been learned to try to attain a goal of perfection

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Superego

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according to Anna Freud, unrealistic strategies used by the ego to protect itself and to discharge tension

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Defense Mechanism

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the failure to establish a personal identity

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Identity Diffusion

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a socially sanctioned period between childhood and adulthood during which an individual os free to experiment to find a socially acceptable identity and role

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Psychosocial Moratorium

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the stage of life, generally extending through one’s twenties, in which one is between adolescence and full adulthood

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Emerging Adulthood

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the act or process of knowing

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Cognition

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someone like Piaget, who believes that both brain maturation and environmental experience are needed for cognitive development

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Organismic Psychologist

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the original patterns of thinking; the mental structures that people use for dealing with what happens in the environment

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Schema

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including and adjusting to new information that increases understanding

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Adaptation

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incorporating a feature of the environment into an existing mode or structure of thought

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Assimilation

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adjusting to new information by creating new structures to replace the old ones

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Accomodation

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according to Piaget, achieving a balance between schemas and accomodation

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Equilibrium

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abstract reasoning principles that allow children to think logically

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Mental Operations

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the level of learning at which a task that is too difficult for a child to complete by himself or herself is manageable with help

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Zone of Proximal Development

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the assistance provided to help a child master a task; it is gradually withdrawn as the child gains competence

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Scaffolding

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learning by observing and imitating the behavior of another

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Modeling

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positive these are influences that increase the probability that the preceding response will occur again; negative these are influences that increase the probability that the preceding response will stop

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Reinforcement

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learning from observing the positive or negative consequences of another person’s behavior

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Vicarious Reinforcement

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the act of learners rewarding themselves for activities or responses that they consider of good quality

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Self-Reinforcement

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the skills, knowledge, functions, and attitudes that individuals have to acquire at certain points in their lives in order to function effectively as mature persons

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Developmental Tasks

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includes those persons with whom the adolescent has immediate contact and who influence him or her

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Microsystem

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the reciprocal relationships among microsystem settings

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Mesosystems

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that part of an ecological system that includes settings in which the adolescent does not have an active role as a participant but that influence him or her nevertheless

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Exosystem

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the ideologies, attitudes, mores, customs, and laws of a particular culture that influence the individual

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Macrosystem

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the influence of a particular culture in determining the personality and behavior of a developing individual

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Cultural Determinism

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variations in social institutions, economic patterns, habits, mores, rituals, religious beliefs, and ways of life from one culture to another

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Cultural Relativism