Week 15 - Adolescence, Emerging Adulthood, and Aging Flashcards
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What are crowds?
Adolescent peer groups characterized by shared reputations or images.
What is deviant peer contagion?
The spread of problem behaviours within groups of adolescents.
What is differential susceptibility?
Genetic factors that make individuals more or less responsive to environmental experiences.
What is foreclosure?
Individuals commit to an identity without exploration of options.
What is homophily?
Adolescents associating with peers who are similar to themselves.
What is identity acheivement?
Individuals that have explored different options and then made commitments.
What is identity diffusion?
Adolescents that neither explore not commit to any roles or ideologies.
What is moratorium?
A state in which adolescents are actively exploring options but have not yet made identity commitments.
What is psychological control?
Parent’s manipulation of and intrusion into adolescent’s emotional and cognitive world through invalidating adolescents feelings and pressuring them to think in particular ways.
What is collectivism?
Belief system that emphasizes the duties and obligations that each person has toward others.
What is emerging adulthood?
A new life stage extending from approximately ages 18 to 25, during which the foundation of an adult life is gradually constructed in love and work. Primary features include identity explorations, instability, focus on self-development, feeling incompletely adult, and a broad sense of possibilities.
What is individualism?
Belief system that exalts freedom, independence, and individual choice as high values.
What are industrialized countries?
The economically advanced countries of the world, in which most of the world’s wealth is concentrated.
What are non-industrialized countries?
The less economically advanced countries that comprise the majority of the world’s population. Most are currently developing at a rapid rate.
What are OECD countries?
Members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, comprised of the world’s wealthiest countries.
What is tertiary education?
Education or training beyond secondary school, usually taking place in a college, university, or vocational training program.
What is age identity?
How old or young people feel compared to their chronological age, after early adulthood, most people feel younger than their chronological age.
What is autobiographical narratives?
A qualitative research method used to understand characteristics and life themes that an individual considers to uniquely distinguish him or herself from others.
What is the average life expectancy?
The mean number of years that 50% of people in a specific birth cohort are expected to survive. This is typically calculated from birth but is also sometimes re-calculated for people who have already reached a particular age.
What is a cohort?
A group of people typically born in the same year or historical period, who share common experiences over time; sometimes called a generation.
What is the Convoy Model of Social Relations?
Theory that proposes that the frequency, types, and reciprocity of social exchanges change with age. These social exchanges impact the health and well-being of the givers and receivers in the convoy.
What are cross-sectional studies?
Research methods that provide information about age group differences; age differences are confounded with cohort differences and effects related to history and time of study.
What is crystallized intelligence?
A type of intellectual ability that relies on the application of knowledge, experience, and learned information.
What is fluid intelligence?
A type of intelligence that relies on the ability to use information processing resources to reason logically and solve novel problems.
