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Chapter 5
Peer Groups
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
03/22/2011

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Term
What percentage of waking hours do U.S. high school seniors spend with family?
Definition
less than 15%
Term
Modernization has led to more age segregation in what 3 ways?
Definition
-schools
-workplace
-community
Term
teenagers’ moods become more positive/negative over the course of the week, as the weekend approaches?
Definition
positive
Term
During the transition into adolescence, there is a dramatic drop in what?
Definition
the amount of time adolescents spend with parents
Term
What important factors innlfuenced the origin of adolescent peer groups?
Definition
-Age grading
-Rapid growth of teenage population, product from the "Baby Boom"
Term
What did the "baby boom" create? and when was the baby boom?
Definition
Baby Boom created an “adolescent boom” in the 1960s and early 1970s
Term
adolescents comprised over what percentage of U.S. population in (1975)?
Definition
10%
Term
how do me researchers believe age segregation has led to a separate youth culture that has negative effects on adolescents?
Definition
young people maintain attitudes/values different from the rest of society
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