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Details Title: Adolescent Psychology Description: Chapters 1-3 Total Flash Cards: 29 Created: 02/06/2006 17:27:52	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term G. STANELY HALL Definition Storm and Stress, a concept that states that adolescense is a turbulent time charged with conflic nad mood swings. Term MARGARET MEAD Definition Thought that adolescence is sociocultural, or to say affected by the culture a child is in. Term INVENTIONIST VIEW Definition The view that adolescence is a sociocultural creation. Term FURTHER ADVANCES WITH ADOLESCENT RESEARCH: Definition -child labor laws -importance of school Term STEREOTYPE Definition Generalization that reflects our impressions and beliefs about a broad group of people. Term ADOLESCENT GENERALIZATION GAP Definition generalizations that are based on information about a limited, often highly visual group of adolescents. Term CONTEXTS ARE AFFECTED BY: Definition history, economy, social and cultural factors. Term SOCIAL POLICY Definition A national government's cpurse of action designed to influence the welfare of its citizens. Term GENERATIONAL INEQUITY Definition older adults recieve inequitably large allocations of resources, such as social security and medicare benefits. Term BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES Definition Physical changes in an individual's body Term PERIODS OF DEVELOPMENT: COGNITIVE PROCESS Definition Changes in an individual's thinking and intelligence Term SOCIOEMOTIONAL PROCESSES Definition Changes in an individual's relationships with other people, emotions, personality, and social contexts Term PRENATAL PERIOD Definition The time from conception to birth Term INFANCY Definition Birth to 18-24 months Term EARLY CHILDHOOD Definition End of infancy to 5 or 6 years, "preschool" years Term MIDDLE AND LATE CHILDHOOD Definition The developmental period from 6-11 Term EARLY ADOLESCENCE Definition The Developmental period that corrosponds roughly to the middle school or junior high; is related to biological changes, puberty Term LATE ADOLESCENCE Definition Latter half of the second decade of life, more pronounced emotional development Term YOUTH Definition Transitional period between adolescence and adulthood, which is a time of economic and personal temporariness. Term NATURE-NURTUE Definition Biological vs Sociological influences Term CONTINUITY VS DISCONTINUITY Definition growing and developing into something new, or a sudden change. Term EARLY-LATER EXPERIENCE Definition The affect of an early experience vs one later in life Term PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORIES Definition Describe development as primarily unconscious and heavily colored by emotion Term SIGMUND FREUD Definition Specialized in neurology, developed psychoanalytic theory. Term FREUD'S PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES Definition Oral Stage Anal Stage Phallic Stage Latency Stage Genital Stage Term ID, EGO, SUPER-EGO Definition ID: instincts EGO: Desires SUPER-EGO: Morality Term ERIK ERIKSON Definition Theory Includes 8 Stages of human development Term COGNITIVE THEORIES: PIAGET'S DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY Definition indivituals actively construct their understanding of the world as they go through four stages of development. How our brain organizes and adapts to the world. Term JEAN PIAGET'S FOUR STAGES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT. Definition Sensorimotor: sensory experience and physical actions Preoperational: representing the world with images and words (symbology) Concrete Operational: reason without concrete proof and classification skills Formal Operational Stage: abstract logical reasoning.