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A cultural and biological construct that last from age 13 to 18 |
Define adolescence
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Transition from adolescence to adulthood lasting from 18 years to 25 years |
Emerging adulthood
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the total pattern of a group's Customs, beliefs, art, and technology. Thus a culture is a group's common way of life, passed on from one generation to the next
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What is culture |
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the culture that sets the most norms and standards, and holds most of the positions of politics, economics, intellectual and Media power
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What is a majority culture |
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Important moments that paved the way for the adolescent construct |
1890-1920: laws making it illegal to hire children(overworked, underpaid, & hazardous conditions). Mandatory primary & secondary school education |
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What is menarche |
A girl's first menstruation |
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A small sample that tries to replicate a population's age, gender, ethnicity, education, and socioeconomic status |
What is a stratified sample |
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Identity exploration, instability, cell focus, feeling in between, possibilities and optimism
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Five distinct features of emerging adulthood |
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No, young people are expected to take on new responsibilities at different times. |
Does emerging adulthood exists in all cultures
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Identify a research question, form hypothesis, choose a research method, collect data, draw conclusion. |
Five steps of the scientific method in studying adolescence
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Institutional review board, APA, society of research on child development |
Three boards of ethics of human development research
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Institutional review board ethical guidelines |
1. Protection from physical or psychological harm 2. Informed consent 3. Confidentiality 4. deception and debriefing |
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Pros and cons to questionnaires |
+ large sample, quick data collection. - preset responses, no depth |
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Pros and cons to interviews |
+ individuality, complexity - time and effortful coding |
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Pros and cons to observations |
+ actual behavior, not observing may affect behavior |
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Pros and cons to ethnographic research |
+entire span of daily life - researcher must live among participants, possible biases |
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Pros and cons of case study |
+ Rich detailed data - difficult to generalize results |
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Pros and cons to biological measures |
+ precise - expensive, relation to behaviour may not be clear |
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Pros and cons to experiment |
+ control, identify cause and effect - may not reflect real life |
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Pros and cons to natural experiment |
+ illuminate gene-environment relation- unusual circumstances, rare |
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Consistency of a measure. Similar result on repeated measures
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What is reliability |
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Does it measure what it claims to example the claim that IQ is a measure of intelligence is controversial
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What is validity |
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Data collected on various people at one given time. Issue of cohort effect (different cultures, raised in different times) + quick and inexpensive. Correlation may be difficult to interpret
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What is a cross-sectional design |
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Same people measured over long. Of time. Time-consuming and expensive.
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What is a longitudinal design |
