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46 Cards in this Set
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Multitasking
Brain Processing |
Adolescents are not any better at it than adults. Truly no one really multitasks. The brain actually switches back and forth between different media sources. The anterior per-frontal cortex is responsible for switching attention from one task to another.
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Media Hours
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8-18 year olds
6.5 hours a day Through using multiple media at a time it actually translates to 8.5 hours a day |
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TV viewing
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3 hours a day
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Violence on TV
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Watching aggression leads to aggressive behavior
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Watching Pornography
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Mixed: some reports say it leads to more sexual activity--some say it changes nothing
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Jobs and GPA
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The more hours a student works the lower the grades
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Intrinsic motivation
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causes participation for their own enjoyment
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extrinsic motivation
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causes participation because of the rewards they will receive
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Internalizing disorders
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physical and psychological problems that are turned inward and primarily affect only the adolescent in question--depression, anxiety, phobias
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Externalizing disorders
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problems that are directed outward--behavioral problems are an example
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Ginzberg Career Theory
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Fantasy Period --until age 11
Tentative Period--adolescence Realistic Period--adulthood |
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Ginzberg
Fantasy Period |
period of life when career choices are made and discarded--no consideration of skill, ability, or availability
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Ginzberg
Tentative Period |
thinking more pragmatically about career
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Ginzberg
Realistic Period |
exploration of career through experience or training
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Holland Personality Types
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1 realistic
2 intellectual 3 social 4 conventional 5 enterprising 6 artistic |
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Holland
Realistic |
down to earth, practical, lower social skills
Farmers, laborers, truck drivers |
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Intellectual |
theoretical and abstract
suited for careers in math and science |
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Social |
interpersonal skills
careers in sales, teaching, counseling |
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Conventional |
prefer structured tasks
career choices: clerks, secretaries, bank tellers |
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Enterprising |
risk takers--take charge kind of people
career choices: managers and politicians |
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Artistic |
art to express themselves
Career involving the arts |
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Super Career Self-Concept Perspecitve
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view of oneself viewed through the context of work
Crystallization Stage 14-18 Specification Stage 18-22 Implementation Stage 22-24 Stabilization Stage 25-35 Consolidation Stage |
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Crystallization Stage |
14-18
careers that are consistent with global self-concept |
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Specification Stage |
18-22
realize importance of becoming more specific about career choice |
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Implementation Stage |
22-24
seek work in chosen career and begin career |
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Stabilization Stage |
25-35
become familiar and settle |
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Consolidation Stage |
established and try to advance
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Communal Professions
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careers associated with relationships
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Agentic Professions
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associated with getting things accomplished
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Acculturation
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the changes and adjustments that occur when groups of different people come into sustained firsthand contact
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ethnic identity
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how members of ethnic, racial, and cultural minorities view themselves
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social identity theory
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using group membership as a source of pride and self-worth
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Social learning view
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people develop prejudice ans stereotypes about people of other groups in the same way they learn attitudes, beliefs, and values
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School Shooters
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Traits: low tolerance for frustration, poor coping skills, a lack of resiliency, failed love relationships, resentment over perceived injustices, depression, self-centeredness, and alienation
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culture
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set of traditions, behaviors, beliefs, values, attitudes, and expectations shared by members of a particular society
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Runaways
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leave home voluntarily
1/2 million |
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Throwaways
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20% of runaways
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Rumination
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over think
More like what women do |
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Distraction
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Men are more likely to distract from an issue
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Stress
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the response to events that threaten or challenge individuals
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General Adaption Syndrome
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GAS--a model that suggests that the physiological response to stress follows a similar 3 stage pattern
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PNI--psychoneuroimmunology
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the study of the relationship among physical factors, the immune system, and the brain
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hardiness
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a personality characteristic associated with lower rate of stress-related illness
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resilience
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ability to overcome
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set point
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everyone has a set point for happiness to determine the level of mood
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eustress
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positive stress that motivates
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