Youth Culture Final

Who is credited for making adolescences a unique field of study

G Stanley Hall

When does adolescence begin?

When puberty starts

Executive functioning

Solving cognitive problems without distractions and adjust ones strategyas nature of problems changes

Executive Functioning peaks at

Emerging adulthood

Gray matter

neurons and unmyelinated axons

white matter

myelinated axons

gray matter decreases and white increases

true

Maturation

development due to genetically based processes with limited influence from enviroment

driving force behind piagets theory

maturation

Family systems approach

approach to understanding family functioning that emphasizes how each relationship within family influences family as a whole

Key principle to fam system approach

each subsystem influences every other subsystem in the family

disequilibrium

change that requires adjustments from family members

Internalizing problems

depression, anxiety, eating disorders

Externalizing Problems

delinquency, acting out

most relevant phase for adolescents (PIaget)

Formal Operational (thinking systemically about possibilities and hypotheses

assimilation

new information altered to fit an existing scheme

accommodation

changing the scheme to adapt to new information

what system is responsible for physical changes in puberty

endocrine (network of glands- releases horomones)

Girls growth spurt

begin at about 11 years old, more body fat, 3.5 inches per year

Boys growth spurt

begins around 13 years old, muscle, 4.1 inches per year

collectivism

Asian, developing countries, traditional, more group based

Individualism

Self expression and independence, U.S, developed countries

scheme

Cognitive structure for categorizing and organizing information in the brain

Kohlberg Preconventional Reasoning

Lowest level, focused on avoiding punishments and gaining rewards

Kohlberg Conventional Reasoning

Social order, following social norms, relationship-based (rules, moral expectations)

Kohlberg Post Conventional Reasoning

Based on person autonomous view of principles and justice of rights to others