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Adolescence |
a period of the life course between the time puberty begins and the time adult status is approached, when young people are preparing to take on the roles and responsibilities of adulthood in their culture. |
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Ancient Greece |
During which historical era was adolescence seen as the stage of life in which the capacity for reason developed? |
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inventionist view |
adolescence was invented as a way of keeping young people excluded from useful and income-producing work, instead keeping them in educational institutions where they would be dependent on adults and learn to be passive and compliant to adult authority |
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Child study movement |
Advocates research on child and adolescent development and the improvement of conditions for children and adolescents in the family, school, and workplace. |
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Recapitulation |
Holds that the development of each individual reenacts the evolutionary development of the human species as a whole |
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Storm and stress |
Holds that adolescence reflects a period of great upheaval and disorder. |
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Menarche |
Holds that adolescence reflects a period of great upheaval and disorder. |
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The period of emerging adulthood |
includes the ages from roughly 18 to 25 and is a transitional period of moving out of adolescence and into adulthood |
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Which of the following is not a characteristic that distinguishes emerging adulthood |
stability |
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Emerging adulthood exists only in cultures in which young people are allowed to postpone entering adult roles such as marriage and parenthood until at least their mid-twenties |
true |
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Early adolescence |
age 10 to age 14 |
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Late adolescence |
age 15 to age 18 |
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Emerging adulthood |
age 18 to age 25 |
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Legally, the transition to adulthood takes place in most respects at age 21. |
FALSE |
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The values of __________, such as independence and self-expression, are often contrasted with the values of collectivism, such as duties and obligations to others. |
individualism |
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In virtually all traditional, non-Western cultures, the transition to adulthood is clearly and explicitly marked by marriage |
False |
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HYPOTHESIS |
The scholar's idea about one possible answer to the question of interest |
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SAMPLE |
Represents the population |
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PROCEDURE |
Informed consent is an example of this |
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METHOD |
A strategy for collecting data |
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ANALYSIS |
Conducted to examine relationships between different parts of the data |
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A researcher seeks a sample that will be __________ of the population of interest. |
representative |
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One standard aspect of the procedure in scientific studies of human beings is informed consent |
TRUE |
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A method has high _______ if it measures what it claims to measure |
Validity |
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The most commonly used method in social science research is the interview |
FALSE |
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Interviews provide __________ data, as contrasted with the quantitative data of questionnaires. |
qualitative |
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In __________, scholars spend a considerable amount of time among the people they wish to study, usually by living among them. |
ethnographic research |
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In the experimental research method, which of the groups does not receive treatment? |
The control group |
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The experience sampling method involves having young people wear watches with beepers, usually for one week. |
TRUE |
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One of the key issues in interpreting research is the issue of __________ versus causation. |
correlation |
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Longitudinal studies can help unravel the issue of correlation versus causation. |
TRUE |
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Manuscripts are typically __________ for its scientific accuracy and credibility and for the importance of its contribution to the field. |
peer-reviewed |
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A good __________ presents a set of interconnected ideas in an original and insightful way and points the way to further research. |
theory |
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People in different places respond differently to how they respond to the physical changes of puberty and in what they allow and expect from their adolescents. |
Cultural contrasts |
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Comparing adolescents and emerging adults today to adolescents and emerging adulthood as it was experienced in other times |
Historical contrasts |
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Psychologists, anthropologists, physicians, sociologists, and educators all contribute insights to adolescence. |
Interdisciplinary approach |
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The expectations that cultures have for males and females are different from the time they are born. |
Gender issues |
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Increasing worldwide technological and economic integration is making the world “smaller” and more homogeneous. |
Globalization |
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Young people are becoming increasingly __________ in their identities, with one identity for participation in their local culture and on identity for participation in the global culture. |
bicultural |
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Context is the term that scholars use to refer to the environmental settings in which development takes place. |
TRUE |
