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30 Cards in this Set
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This theory emphasizes the hormonal and physical changes of puberty as driving forces.
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Biological Theory
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The contribution of this theory is attention to age-specific biological changes.
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Biological Theory
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The challenges of this theory is the overemphasis on difficulties (adolescence is NOT an inherently stressful period)
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Biological Theory
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What are the four key areas of focus in the biological theory?
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brain maturation; hormonal influences on behavior; changes in sleep patterns; genetic bases of behaviors
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What theory stresses biological forces and takes into account the ways in which contextual forces interact with and modify the biological forces?
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Organismic Theory
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What theories are often stage theories?
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Organismic Theory
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What theory recognizes the interplay of biological and contextual factors?
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Organismic Theory
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What theory has inconclusive evidence for all stages proposed by the theories?
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Organismic Theory
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What theory stresses the context in which behavior takes place? (the content of what is learned is emphasized)
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Learning Theory
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What are two learning theories?
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Behaviorism and Social Learning
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What emphasizes the process of reinforcement and punishment as the main influences on adolescent behavior?
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Behaviorism (Learning Theory)
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What emphasizes the ways in which adolescents learn how to behave and places emphasis on modeling and observational learning?
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Social Learning (Learning Theory)
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To what theory is attention to environment as a predictor of change a contribution?
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Learning Theory
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What theory is not specific to adolescence?
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Learning Theory
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What theory emphasizes how adolescents, as a group, come of age in society? It also emphasizes the factors that groups of adolescents have in common by virtue of their age, gender, ethnicity, etc.
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Sociological Theory
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What theory provides a broader context in which development occurs is recognized?
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Sociological Theory
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In what theory is assumed similarities too great?
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Sociological Theory
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What theory recognizes that adolescence as a developmental period varies from one point in history to another?
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Historical/Anthropological Theory
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What theory focuses on specific experiences relative to broader social, political, and economic forces?
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Historical/Anthropological Theory
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What theory doesn't address individual/group differences?
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Historical/Anthropological Theory
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What theory emphasizes the broad/range of context in which development occurs?
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Ecological Theory
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Ecology is the range of situations in which __ (4)
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people are actors; the roles they play; the situations they encounter; and the consequences of these encounters
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Who is the Father of Ecological Perspective?
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Bronfenbrenner
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Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Model includes what four systems?
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Microsystem; Mesosystem; Exosystem; Macrosystem
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What system includes the immediate interactions with the environment?
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Microsystem
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What system includes linkages between people/features of the immediate environment?
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Mesosystem
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What system includes the setting that has influences on the adolescent even though he/she doesn't directly interact with those settings?
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Exosystem
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What system includes the culture a person develops (customs/beliefs/resources/norms)
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Macrosystem
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What theory recognizes the interrelatedness of the individual and contexts?
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Ecological Theory
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What theory doesn't explain how the environment has its effects (no testable data) and questions "is it practical?"
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Ecological Theory
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