Adolecence- Vocabulary, Etc Flashcards
(23 cards)
Ecological systems
The interacting structures both within the adolescent, such as physical, cognitive, and emotional functions, and in the adolescents surroundings, such as family, peers, school and the community.
Stage environment fit
The ways developmental changes in an adolescent interrelate with changes in the adolescent social environment, such as parental rules and demands
Cultural diversity
The variety of customs, beliefs, expectations, and behaviours that are typical of adolescents from different cultural and ethnocultural backgrounds
Globalization
The tendency for economics, social, and political events and trends in one part of the world to have an impact on lives in order, distant parts of the world.
Applications
Ways of taking knowledge about adolescence that is derived from research and putting it to practical use.
Educated consumers
Those whose understanding of the field of adolescence and of the ways knowledge is gathered allows them to judge the strengths and weaknesses of new findings
Positive development
The study of factors that encourage adolescents to develop In a positive direction
Active learning
Interactions with new information, for example by rephrasing material or trying to explain it to someone else
Deep processing
The association of a new information with material that is already in memory, especially material that has personal relevance
Normative transitions
Changes that most adolescents go through at roughly the same point In their development, such as puberty and entering high school
Idiosyncratic transition
Changes that take place at unpredictable points during adolescence, such as a parental divorce or a serious illness
Early adolescence
The period from ages 11 to 14 that roughly coincides with the middle or junior high school years
Middle adolescence
The period from ages 15 to 18 that roughly coincides with the high school years
Late adolescence
The period from ages 19 to 22 that roughly coincides with college or university years, often referred to as emerging adulthood
Developmental tasks
The skills, attitudes, and social functions that culture expects members to acquire at a particular point in their lives
Inventionism
The view that the concept of adolescence was promoted in the early 20th century as a way of setting off young people from the adult world
Life - cycle services
The custom in preindustrial Europe that sent young people to live and work away from their families during adolescence
Storm and stress
The belief that adolescence is necessarily a very tumultuous period
Age stratification
The process of defining groups, such as adolescents, on the basis of their age and treating them differently.
Peers
Those who are of about the same age or level of development
Consumerism
A concern with having or getting the clothes, toys, and other things that are currently fashionable
Population pyramid
A way of showing in graphic from the proportions of people in a society who fall into different age categories
Urbanization
The trend for young people, especially those in developing countries, to leave the countryside and more to cities
