Week 7: positive beliefs

Question 1

What is Positive Youth Development (PYD)

Answer 1

A positive view of youth development that rejects the traditional deficit or ‘storm and stress’ view of adolescence

A positive developmental trajectory occurs when systems or settings
(contexts) support young people to achieve these goals

Question 2

What are risk factors

Answer 2

Prolonged exposure to adversity i.e. poverty; harsh treatment or neglect; poorly treated medical condition/disability

Question 3

When does resilience arise?

Answer 3

occurs in the context of risk exposure or threat

Question 4

How do PYD and resilience link?

Answer 4

Each acknowledge that a number of individual-context interactions occur to shape positive or risky developmental trajectories

Question 5

What is self-regulation?

Answer 5

Selection, optimization, and compensation

basically setting goals, and completing them

Question 6

What is self esteem?

Answer 6

A subjective global evaluation of our worth as a person

Question 7

what is self concept

Answer 7

Multidimensional with descriptions and
evaluations of the self within multiple
domains; Math, English or Essay Writing self-concept. also Influenced by social-comparisons

Question 8

what is self efficacy

Answer 8

Self-efficacy is an agentic belief in one’s ability or capability to perform a task successfully to achieve an outcome.

Self efficacy is the most domain specific form of selfjudgement reflecting a ‘can-do’ judgement of the self in discreet tasks.

Question 9

what is social and emotional learning

Answer 9

f acquiring core competencies to recognize and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, appreciate the perspectives of others, establish and maintain positive relationships, make responsible decisions, and handle interpersonal situations
constructively.

Question 10

what are social skills

Answer 10

Social skills are the specific behaviours that an individual uses to perform competently

Question 11

what is social compotencey

Answer 11

It is the ability to respond flexibly and
appropriately defines a persons ability to
‘handle’the social challenges presented to
us all

Question 12

What is emotional competence

Answer 12

Awareness of our emotional state, Capacity for empathy and sympathy

Question 13

what is the most powerful source of self-efficacy

Answer 13

mastery experiences because they allow students to test their capacity