Adolescence Chapter 1 Vocab
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- Adolescence
- period of transition spanning the second decade of life during which a person's biological, psychological, and social characteristics undergo change in an interrelated manner and the person goes from being childlike to adultlike.
- storm and stress
- Phrase often used to stereotype general and universal turmoil throughout the adolescent years.
- Developmental trajectories
- Individual's path through life as influenced by combinations of biology, psychology, and context unique to each person
- context
- Environments in which an individual exists such as family, school, work, and culture.
- ecology
- Levels of a person's social context that influence individual development
- social role
- Socially prescribed set of behaviors that society believes is important for its maintenance and perpetuation.
- Intervention studies
- Research designed to understand how changing aspects of the social world or an individual's behavior can lead to improvements in a person's life.
- Policies
- Actions taken by social institutions (the enactment of laws), such as governments to ensure or increase desired behaviors (better school performance) or to decrease unwanted behaviors (drunk driving).
- Life-span perspective
- Approach that characterizes individual development as occurring across a lifetime through the combination of internal and external ifluences; the approach stresses differences within and between people and attempts to optimize lifetime development.
- Multidisciplinary
- Research and knowledge from diverse fields.
- Developmental tasks
- Behavior that must be achieved at a particular age or stage in order for adaptive development to occur.
- Self-definition
- Understanding of who you are as a person based on how you view yourself physically, psychologically, and socially.
- Adaptive functioning
- Development that responds to biological, psychological, and social influences n ways that are healthy, positive, and successful.
- Inter-individual differences
- Variability between people that leads to different developmental outcomes.
- Intra-individual changes
- Alterations within a person that occur with development.
- Programs
- Standardized procedures followed to enable a person or group to increase desired behaviors (the enhancement of literacy through instruction in reading) or to decrease unwanted ones (school dropout).
- Stereotype
- Exceptionless generalization or commonly held belief about a group (adolescents) or social institution (fraternities or sororites).
- Culturally conditioned
- Ideas, views, beliefs, attitudes, or values engendered by the social, cultural, and historical enviornment in which we live.
- Cognitive reorganization
- Changes in the way a person thinks or reasons.
- "Continuous growth"
- Developmental path through adolescence characterized by smooth, nonabrupt change.
- "Surgent Growth"
- Developmental path through adolescence characterized by abrupt spurts or changes in behavior, but not necessarily with turmoil, storm, or stress.
- "Tumultuous growth"
- Developmental path through adolescence experienced by a milority of adolescents, characterized by turmoil, storm, and stress.
- Cross-cultural variation
- Differences in values, beliefs, attitudes, and action that occur between societies.