Intro Flashcards
G. Stanley Hall’s concept that adolescence is a turbulent time charged with conflict and mood swings.
Storm-and-stress view
The view that adolescence is a sociohistorical creation. Especially important in this view are the sociohistorical circumstances at the beginning of the twentieth century, a time when legislation was enacted that ensured the dependency of youth and made their move into the economic sphere more manageable.
Inventionist view
Characteristics related to a person’s year of birth, era, or generation rather than to his or her actual chronological age.
Cohort effects
The generation born after 1980, the first to come of age and enter emerging adulthood in the new millennium. Two characteristics stand out: (1) their ethnic diversity, and (2) their connection to technology.
Millennials
William Damon argues that too many youths today are indecisive and aren’t making adequate progress toward _______ resolution.
Identity
A generalization that reflects our impressions and beliefs about a broad group of people. Refers to an image of what the typical member of a specific group is like.
Stereotype
Joseph Adelson’s concept of generalizations being made about adolescents based on information regarding a limited, often highly visible group of adolescents.
adolescent generalization gap
The settings in which development occurs. These settings are influenced by historical, economic, social, and cultural factors.
contexts
A national government’s course of action designed to influence the welfare of its citizens.
social policy
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).
development
Physical changes in an individual’s body.
biological processes
Changes in an individual’s thinking and intelligence.
cognitive processes
Changes in an individual’s personality, emotions, relationships with other people, and social contexts.
socioemotional processes
The time from conception to birth.
prenatal period
The developmental period that extends from birth to 18 or 24 months of age.
infancy
The developmental period extending from the end of infancy to about 5 or 6 years of age; sometimes called the preschool years.
early childhood
The developmental period extending from about 6 to about 10 or 11 years of age; sometimes called the elementary school years.
middle and late childhood
The developmental period of transition from childhood to adulthood; it involves biological, cognitive, and socioemotional changes. Begins at approximately 10 to 13 years of age and ends in the late teens.
adolescence
The developmental period that corresponds roughly to the middle school or junior high school years and includes most pubertal change.
early adolescence
The developmental period that corresponds approximately to 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.
late adolescence
The developmental period beginning in the late teens or early twenties and lasting through the thirties.
early adulthood
The developmental period that is entered at about 35 to 45 years of age and exited at about 55 to 65 years of age.
middle adulthood
The developmental period occurring from approximately 18 to 25 years of age; this transitional period between adolescence and adulthood is characterized by experimentation and exploration
emerging adulthood
