CHD 3243 EXAM 1 VERIFIED STUDY GUIDE
Approaches to studying adolescents - Answers - cultural, biological, cognitive,
psychosexual, social
cultural
biological - Answers - focuses on the process of sexual maturation and physical growth
that takes during puberty, i
1. Involving that maturation and functions of the male and female organs
2. Development of secondary sexual characteristics
3. Neurological Development
4. The growth trends in height, weight, and body composition that takes place during
adolescence.
psychosexual - Answers - deals with the development of emotions and of the self,
including the development of self-concept, gender role and identity.
social - Answers - are concerned with the ways teenagers interact with members of their
families, peers, sibling relationship, and parenting styles
Cognitive - Answers - deals with both the qualitative changes that takes place in the
way adolescents think and reason and the quantitative changes that take place in
attention, memory and intelligence.
Cohorts/generations - Answers - a group of individuals who are born at approximately
the same time and who share traits because they experienced the same historical
events.
Major adolescent cohorts and how society shaped their characteristics, views, etc. -
Answers - Different generations sometimes take on a predominant characteristic, many
cohorts since the beginning of the twentieth century
Employment - Answers - High school students who work have been rising rapidly and
steadily. Adolescents are devoting too much time to their jobs and not enough school,
most "waste" the money they earn creating a spending patterns
General employment patterns - Answers - Consumer industry has responded by
directing marketing and products their way
Adolescents from low income families - Answers - Adolescents in those families feel
rejected, are more likely to be nonjoiners in school activities, are seldom elected to
positions of prestige and often seek status through antisocial behavior.
, Evolving family - Answers - Reasons of delay marriage= increase in permissiveness
toward premarital sex, more need/opportunity for education, decreased negative
attitudes toward singlehood and an increase in non marital cohabitation.
General patterns (marriage, childrearing, etc.) - Answers - Adolescents are more likely
to remain single for quite a few more years than either their parents or grandparents.
Gap median age of marriage for men and women has narrowed substantially.
Those who do marry are having fewer children. Most families have become more
democratic and child centered
Changes in family dynamics - Answers - More adolescents are being raised for at least
part of their lives in a single- parent home. This is due to increase in both the non
marital birthrate and the divorce rate.
Evolving sexual landscape - Answers -
Changes in sexual behavior - Answers - U.S society are more open today about
sexuality than they were in the past thus positive effects=availability of information and
contraceptives
STDs - Answers - A negative effect of the society being open about sex, which has
brought high rates of STDS, as Gonorrhea is more common for adolescents because of
multiple sex partners and ignore the symptoms
Pregnancy - Answers - A negative effect of the society being open about sex, which
brought high rates of pregnancy, as young adolescents pregnancies are unplanned.
Mothers are more likely to fail to establish their own independent housholds.
Adolescent understanding of sexuality - Answers - More adolescents are confused but
are encourage to learn about their sexuality and able to discuss it and stimulated to
sexual arousal.
Research methods - Answers - Correlations
Experiments and causality
Longitudinal vs. cross-sectional research designs
Correlations - Answers - A description of a relationship between two factors that does
not imply a casual relationship between them.
Positive and Negative Correlation - Answers - Positive: when once factor increases, so
does the other
Negative: when one factor increases, the other decreases
True Experiments - Answers - the researcher has control over the situation and its
participants.
Approaches to studying adolescents - Answers - cultural, biological, cognitive,
psychosexual, social
cultural
biological - Answers - focuses on the process of sexual maturation and physical growth
that takes during puberty, i
1. Involving that maturation and functions of the male and female organs
2. Development of secondary sexual characteristics
3. Neurological Development
4. The growth trends in height, weight, and body composition that takes place during
adolescence.
psychosexual - Answers - deals with the development of emotions and of the self,
including the development of self-concept, gender role and identity.
social - Answers - are concerned with the ways teenagers interact with members of their
families, peers, sibling relationship, and parenting styles
Cognitive - Answers - deals with both the qualitative changes that takes place in the
way adolescents think and reason and the quantitative changes that take place in
attention, memory and intelligence.
Cohorts/generations - Answers - a group of individuals who are born at approximately
the same time and who share traits because they experienced the same historical
events.
Major adolescent cohorts and how society shaped their characteristics, views, etc. -
Answers - Different generations sometimes take on a predominant characteristic, many
cohorts since the beginning of the twentieth century
Employment - Answers - High school students who work have been rising rapidly and
steadily. Adolescents are devoting too much time to their jobs and not enough school,
most "waste" the money they earn creating a spending patterns
General employment patterns - Answers - Consumer industry has responded by
directing marketing and products their way
Adolescents from low income families - Answers - Adolescents in those families feel
rejected, are more likely to be nonjoiners in school activities, are seldom elected to
positions of prestige and often seek status through antisocial behavior.
, Evolving family - Answers - Reasons of delay marriage= increase in permissiveness
toward premarital sex, more need/opportunity for education, decreased negative
attitudes toward singlehood and an increase in non marital cohabitation.
General patterns (marriage, childrearing, etc.) - Answers - Adolescents are more likely
to remain single for quite a few more years than either their parents or grandparents.
Gap median age of marriage for men and women has narrowed substantially.
Those who do marry are having fewer children. Most families have become more
democratic and child centered
Changes in family dynamics - Answers - More adolescents are being raised for at least
part of their lives in a single- parent home. This is due to increase in both the non
marital birthrate and the divorce rate.
Evolving sexual landscape - Answers -
Changes in sexual behavior - Answers - U.S society are more open today about
sexuality than they were in the past thus positive effects=availability of information and
contraceptives
STDs - Answers - A negative effect of the society being open about sex, which has
brought high rates of STDS, as Gonorrhea is more common for adolescents because of
multiple sex partners and ignore the symptoms
Pregnancy - Answers - A negative effect of the society being open about sex, which
brought high rates of pregnancy, as young adolescents pregnancies are unplanned.
Mothers are more likely to fail to establish their own independent housholds.
Adolescent understanding of sexuality - Answers - More adolescents are confused but
are encourage to learn about their sexuality and able to discuss it and stimulated to
sexual arousal.
Research methods - Answers - Correlations
Experiments and causality
Longitudinal vs. cross-sectional research designs
Correlations - Answers - A description of a relationship between two factors that does
not imply a casual relationship between them.
Positive and Negative Correlation - Answers - Positive: when once factor increases, so
does the other
Negative: when one factor increases, the other decreases
True Experiments - Answers - the researcher has control over the situation and its
participants.
