Deck 16: Seciton 2: Adolescence: Psychosocial Development

Question 1

Family closeness has four aspects: communication, support, _____, and control.

Answer 1

connectedness

Question 2

_____ describes the direction of a person's erotic desires.

Answer 2

Sexual orientation

Question 3

_____, or mentally replaying past experiences, contributes to depression, especially in girls.

Answer 3

Rumination

Question 4

Parental _____ refers to parents being aware of where their children are and what they are doing.

Question 5

_____ is defined as marked feelings of deep sadness and hopelessness leading to a disruption of normal activities.

Question 6

According to Erikson, the crisis in adolescence is resolved with identity _____.

Question 7

In later adolescence, adolescents are _____ susceptible to peer pressure, either positive or negative.

Question 8

Students are often in _____ school when the first romances appear.

Question 9

Boys are particularly likely to learn about sex from _____.

Question 10

_____ is characterized by a lack of commitment to any goals or values.

Question 11

Parents are important to an adolescent, but so are many other adults-even those with no _____ relationship to the young person.

Question 12

According to Erikson, the four aspects of identity are _____, political, vocational, and sexual.

Question 13

In adolescence, _____ can be negative, such as when it promotes conformance to deviant standards, or positive, such as when it promotes refraining from smoking.

Question 14

The process of identity exploration today takes _____ time than it typically did in the twentieth century.

Question 15

Peers can provide _____, whereby one teen shows another how to rebel against social norms.

Question 16

_____ is a type of parent-adolescent conflict that is usually repeated and ongoing and concerns small day-to-day matters.

Question 17

When young people accept traditional values without question, it is called identity _____.

Question 18

_____ includes the roles and behaviors that society associates with the cultural and social characteristics appropriate for males and females.

Question 19

Suicidal _____ refers to thinking about suicide.

Question 20

According to one study, sexual content appears about seven times per hour in the TV shows most watched by _____.

Question 21

Both the prevalence and incidence of drug use _____ from about age 10 to 25.

Question 22

Research confirms that parental example and _____ change are influential factors in an adolescent's drug use.

Question 23

_____ includes any deliberate self-harm that could have been lethal.

Question 24

When an adolescent suicide is well publicized and seems to make a strong impression on other adolescents in the community, adults must be alert to prevent _____.

Question 25

Adolescent boys use _____ drugs than girls of the same age.

Question 26

The term _____ offender refers to individuals whose criminal activity stops by age 21.

Question 27

One negative effect of _____ is that it impairs digestion and nutrition and slows growth.

Question 28

_____ forgetting is the idea that each new generation disregards what the previous generation learned.