PSYCH 410 - Socioemotional Dev. in Adolescence

Intimacy is a defining feature of adolescent friendships.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Intimacy includes affection, trust, validation, and self-disclosure.

Friends, family, romantic partners.

Because it emphasizes strict discipline and firm control over children, authoritarian child rearing is related to resistance to peer pressure.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Adolescents strive for autonomy as they develop their identities. Caregivers need to balance containment with support for self-assertion.

Close relationships (friendships) provide a foundation for future intimate relationships.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Conversations that involve intimacy help adolescents establish and work out problems in romantic relationships.

Being part of a crowd, a large group of individuals with similar reputations, is beneficial for adolescents' development.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Crowds actually help an adolescent try out a temporary identity.

Males are at a greater risk for suicide than females.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Males tend to use more lethal methods and therefore are more often successful.

Zeke started to engage in more juvenile delinquency around the age of 11. He got arrested for property damage; he now is likely to be a long-term offender.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Late-onset delinquency is usually tied more to peer pressure and does not continue through young adulthood.

Depression rates increase during adolescence.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

More so for females, but for all adolescents. Genes, parenting, learned helplessness, and negative life events contribute.

If we don't develop an identity during adolescence, we will remain in crisis and unable to negotiate later stages in life.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Despite Erikson's stage of Identity vs. Role Confusion, most contemporary research says that we go through a process of exploration and commitment which continues into emerging and young adulthood.

Self-esteem becomes more differentiated in adolescence.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

We begin to make self-judgements about ourselves as a friend, romantic partner, employee, etc.

Early adolescence is a time of gender intensification.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

We see increases in stereotypes about attitudes, behavior, and appearance that correspond to more traditional ideas about gender identity.