Exam 16: Adolescence: Psychosocial Development

Some parent-child bickering during the adolescent years may indicate _____.

Clinical depression among adolescents is _____.

James Marcia identified three specific ways in which young people cope with the identity crisis before they reach identity achievement. Name and describe all three.

If they are all typical for their groups, which 15-year-old has the lowest self-esteem?

Role confusion is typically characterized by _____.

Life-course-persistent offenders _____.

Adolescent drug use in the United States has _____ in recent years.

Research confirms that parental example and _____ changes are influential factors in an adolescent's drug use.

A recent study of teens in New York City found that the teens at highest risk for sexual violence and STIs had _____.

Abstinence-only sex-education programs have little to no impact on reducing adolescent sexual activity.

According to Erikson, the ultimate goal of the identity crisis is identity achievement.

During adolescence, mother-son pairs tend to bicker more than mother-daughter pairs.

According to Erikson, the four aspects of identity are _____, political, vocational, and sexual.

Parent and adolescent conflicts _____.

The cultural norm of familism leads some adolescents to allow their parents to make decisions for them. Most U.S. teenagers _____.

The process of identity exploration today takes _____ time than it typically did in the twentieth century.

_____ forgetting is the idea that each new generation disregards what the previous generation learned.

Technology users, including video game players, tend to be much less extroverted and socially connected than other adolescents.

Lydia finds that she often thinks about killing herself. This is called _____.

Callie called her friend Sue on Saturday to see whether Sue wanted to go to the movies. Sue told Callie that she was staying home to study for their upcoming history test. After the call, Callie decided to study instead of go to the movies. Callie was experiencing _____.