Week 1

Question 1

Stereotype

Answer 1

a generalization that reflects our impressions and beliefs about a broad category of people.

Question 2

Adolescent generalization gap

Answer 2

Coined by Joseph Adelson, refers to generalizations being made about adolescents based on information regarding a limited, often highly visible group of adolescents… and usually the “troublemakers.”

Question 3

What have the portraits of adolescence been like at different points in history?

Middle Ages

Answer 3

children and adolescents were viewed as miniature adults, subject to harsh discipline.

Question 4

What have the portraits of adolescence been like at different points in history?

Eighteenth Century

Answer 4

Jean-Jacgues Rousseau restored the belief that being a child or an adolescent is not the same as being an adult and that development has distinct phases.

Question 5

What have the portraits of adolescence been like at different points in history?

Beginning of 20th Century

Answer 5

scientific exploration of adolescence begins

Question 6

Storm-and-Stress View (G. Stanley Hall)

Answer 6

Development is controlled primarily by biological factors.

Adolescence is a turbulent time charged with conflict and mood swings.

The scientific study of adolescence is due to Hall.

Question 7

Sociocultural View of Adolescence (Margaret Mead)

Answer 7

The basic nature of adolescence is not biological but rather sociocultural.
In cultures that provide a smooth, gradual transition from childhood to adulthood, she found little storm and stress.

Question 8

Inventionist View

Answer 8

Adolescence is a sociohistorical creation (a sociological construct).

Schools, work, and economics are important dimensions.

Some scholars argue that the concept of adolescence was invented mainly as a by- products of the movement to create a system of compulsory public education.

Historians now call the period between 1890 and 1920 the “age of adolescence.”

Question 9

Five key features characterize emerging adulthood:

Answer 9

dentity exploration

Instability

Self-focused

Feeling in between - many emerging adults don’t consider themselves adolescents or full-fledged adults.

The age of possibilities - an opportunity to transform their lives.