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| People who are roughly the same age |
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| A group of individuals born during a particular period |
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| Small tightly knit groups of between 2-12 friends, generally of the same sex and age |
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| Largely, loosely organized groups of young people, composed of several cliques and typically organized around a common shared activity |
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| A set of norms that all individuals are expected to learn because the rules governing behavior apply equally to all members of the community; guidelines for behavior that apply to all members of a community. It is more common in industrialized societies. |
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| Frequently nominated as a best friend and are rarely disliked by their peers |
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| Receive an average number of both positive and negative nominations from their peers |
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| infrequently nominated as someone's best friend and are actively disliked by their peers |
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| infrequently nominated as a best friend but are not disliked by their peers |
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| Controversial Peer Status |
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| Frequently nominated as someone's best friend and as being disliked |
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| The system of middle schools, junior high schools and high schools |
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| The practice of promoting students from one grade to the next regardless of their school performance |
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| Authoritative Teaching Style |
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| Classroom variables that are associated with positive student behavior and attitudes are reminiscent of the authoritative parenting style |
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| Authoritarian Teaching Style |
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| and over emphasis on control in the classroom in the absence of support |
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| Permissive Teaching Style |
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| A lack of clarity and organization and can effect a student detrimentally |
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| Students who are unusually talented in some aspect of intellectual performance |
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| A difficulty with academic tasks that cannot be traced to an emotional problem or sensory dysfunction |
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| The integrations of adolescents who have educational handicaps into regular classrooms |
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| The grouping of students, according to ability, into different levels of classes within the same school grade |
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| A Perspective on adolescence that views unstructured, unsupervised time with peers as a main cause of misbehvaior |
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| Experience Sampling Method |
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| A method of collecting data about adolescents' emotional states, in which individuals are paged and asked to report on their mood and activity |
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| Findings from the Experience Sampling Method Regarding Mood |
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| Adolescents' moods are generally most positive when they are with their friends and least positive when they are alone; their moods with their families fall somewhere in between. Between grades 5-9, adolescents' moods while with friends become more positive, while moods with family become more negative (between grades 5-7) then rise between middle school and high school (grades 8&9). Early adolescences is a time of heightened strain in parent-child relationship |
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| Having more income than one can manage maturely, especially during adolescence |
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| The extent to which an individual is able and inclined to think about the potential consequences of decisions and choices |
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| A period during which individuals are free from excessive obligations and responsibilities and can therefore experiment with different roles and personalities |
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| The collection of traits and attributes that individuals use to describe or characterize themselves |
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| Erickson's Identity Statuses |
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| The normative crisis characteristic of the fifth stage of psychosocial development, predominant during adolescence |
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| 5-factor Model and its personality dimensions |
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| The theory that there are five basic dimensions to personality: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience |
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| Identity Achievement, Moratorium, Foreclosure Group and Identity Diffusion |
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| Psychologically healthier than other individuals on a variety of levels; they score highest on measures of achievement motivation, moral reasoning, intimacy with peers, reflectiveness and career maturity |
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| Score highest on measures of anxiety; show the highest levels of conflict over issues of authority and are the least rigid and least authoritarian |
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| Shown to be the most authoritarian and most prejudiced and the greatest closeness to their parents |
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| The highest level of psychological and interpersonal problems: they are the most socially withdrawn and show the lowest level of intimacy with peers |
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| Traits such as logic, independence, ambition and aggressiveness are considered masculine |
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| Traits such as gentleness, sociability, empathy and tenderness are considered feminine |
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