Adolescence: Psychosocial Development

Flashcards covering key concepts from Kathleen Stassen Berger's lecture on Adolescence and Psychosocial Development, focusing on identity, relationships, and challenges faced during this stage.

Identity

Consistent definition of one’s self as a unique individual, in terms of roles, attitudes, beliefs, and aspirations.

Erikson

Psychologist known for his theory on psychosocial development, which includes the concept of identity versus role confusion.

Role confusion (identity diffusion)

A situation in which an adolescent does not seem to know or care what his or her identity is.

Foreclosure

Premature identity formation, where an adolescent adopts parents' or society's roles and values without questioning.

Moratorium

A socially acceptable way to postpone making identity-achievement decisions, such as attending college.

James Marcia

Psychologist who described four specific ways young people cope with adolescence regarding identity.

Religious Identity

The way an adolescent aligns with the broad outlines of parental and cultural religious beliefs.

Political Identity

The identification of adolescents with political beliefs, often characterized by independence and liberal views.

Ethnic Identity

An individual's sense of belonging to a particular ethnic group, significant for multiracial or immigrant adolescents.

Gender Identity

An individual's personal sense of their own gender, which may align with or differ from their biological sex.

Gender binary

The classification of gender into two distinct and opposite forms: male and female.

Transgender

Someone who identifies as a gender other than the one they were assigned at birth.

Cisgender

Refers to people whose gender identity matches their natal sex.

Peer pressure

Encouragement to conform to the behaviors, dress, and attitudes of friends or contemporaries.

Deviancy training

Destructive peer support in which one person shows another how to rebel against authority or social norms.

Succession of male-female relationships

The developmental sequence of romantic relationships during childhood and adolescence.

Sex Education

Information about sexual health, relationships, and behaviors provided through various media, parents, peers, and schools.

Suicidal Ideation

Thinking about suicide, usually accompanied by serious emotional or cognitive overtones.

Cluster suicides

Several suicides committed by members of a group within a brief period of time.

Delinquency

Engagement in behaviors that violate the law, often associated with adolescence.

Life-course-persistent offender

A person whose criminal activity typically begins in early adolescence and continues throughout life.

Adolescent boys and drug use

Generally, boys use more drugs and do so more frequently than girls.

Generational forgetting

The concept that each new generation tends to forget the lessons learned about the harm of drugs from previous generations.