Ch 7-9 Test Review

How many characteristics of friendship are there?

8

Approximately what percent of middle and high school students report receiving some form sexual harassment in school?

80%

What is a group of people that ranges from 2-12 people who have frequent social interactions? a) clique b) crowd c) peer group

a) clique

Are kids who participate in extracurricular activities more likely to: a) have higher levels of self esteem b) more likely to have reduced self confidence and poor body image c) associate lees with peers in adulthood

a) have higher levels of self esteem

About 1 out of how many adolescents contracts an STI before graduation from high school? a) 1 out of 2 b) 1 out of 3 c) 1 out of 4

c) 1 out of 4

A woman has a ____% chance of being raped in her lifetime: a) 25-30% b) 30-35% c) 14-25%

c) 14-25%

About what percentage of adolescents have had sexual intercourse by the age of 20? a) 30% b) 40% c) 80%

c) 80%

Sullivan's interpersonal theory emphasizes the importance of 7 specific developmental stages, what are they?

infancy, childhood, the juvenile era, preadolescence, early adolescence, late adolescence, and adulthood.

Passionate (or romantic) love

A state of powerful absorption in someone that includes intense psychological interest/arousal, and caring for anthers needs.

Sullivan believed that people who's interpersonal needs are unfulfilled will likely experience a great deal of _______ that will affect their interpersonal relationships.

Anxiety

Which parenting style do you think causes children to postpone sex longer?

Authoritative parenting

When all three parts (intimacy, passion, and commitment) are together what do you have?

Consumate love

Adolescents who are liked by some of their peers but not others are known as_________.

Controversial

Self-disclosure

Conversation in which information about the self is exchanged with others.

Treu or False: Adolescents are likely to develop psychological problems shortly after becoming sexually active.

False

True of False: Children do not ordinarily think about sex until puberty.

False

True or False: Gender identity refers to ones sexual orientation.

False

True or False: In the last 10 years there has been a dramatic increase in teen pregnancy rates.

False

True or False: Laws and policies that govern sexual behavior are referred to as sexual scripts.

False

True or false?: Adolescent's friendships tend to focus on issues like honesty or self-disclosure.

False Adolescent's friendships tend to be activity based and do not necessarily focus on issues like honesty or self-disclosure.

True or false?: Anxiety does not interfere with interpersonal relations across the developmental stages.

False Anxiety CAN interfere with interpersonal relations across the developmental stages.

True or false?: Emphasis on close relationships with both same sex and opposite sex peers is decreased in adolescence.

False Emphasis on close relationships with both same sex and opposite sex peers is INCREASED in adolescence.

According to Sullivan, pre adolescents experience the need for ______ with a few close friends, especially of the same sex.

Intimacy

According to Erikson's stages of development, young adulthood is what stage?

Intimacy vs Isolation

Adolescents who are neither liked nor disliked by their peers are called_________.

Neglected

Adolescents who are uniformly disliked by their peers are called_________.

Rejects

Friendships

Relationships in which there is a positive, reciprocal relationship between two people.

Descriptive self-disclosure

Self-disclosure in which people share FACTS about their lives.

Evaluative self-disclosure

Self-disclosure that communicates information about personal FEELINGS.

Evidence suggests that ______ is defined as sexual attention, the creation of a hostile or abusive environment or explicit persuasion to engage in unwanted sexual activity.

Sexual harassment

Who believed that people develop their personality within a social context?

Sullivan

Which country has the highest teen pregnancy in the world?

The United States

Decision/commitment component

The component of love that embodies both the initial cognition that one loves another person and the longer-term determination to maintain that love.

Intimacy component

The component of love that encompasses feelings of closeness, affection, and connectedness.

Intimacy

The feeling of emotional closeness and interconnectedness with another person, develops during adolescence because of the cognitive, social, and physical advances that occur during that period.

What is gender identity?

The gender with which you associate yourself as and not necessarily the gender you were born into aka "sexual preference".

Loneliness

The inability to maintain the level of affiliation one desires.

Companionate love

The strong affection that we have for those with whom our lives are deeply involved.

Who do middle adolescents or high school kids spend twice as much time with in their lives?

Their peers

When boys start reducing the amount of time they spend with their parents, who are they more likely to start spending that free time with?

They spend more time alone

When girls start reducing the amount of time they spend with their parents, who are they more likely to start spending that free time with?

They spend more time with friends

Adolescents sex lives tend to play out in unplanned and haphazard ways, what does their contraceptive use look like?

They use contraception haphazardly.

True or False: Evidence suggests that adolescents are more likely to use contraception the first time they have sex.

True

True or False: One reason for the decline in adolescent pregnancy rates is an increase in the prevalence in sexual substitutes "outercourse".

True

True or false?: Emphasis on the peer group grows in adolescence.

True

True or false?: Enhanced intimacy in relationships is supported by the adolescent's cognitive growth and development as well as an increase in autonomy.

True

True or false?: Healthy development rests on a person's ability to establish intimacy with another person

True

Kindness

True friends are kind and unselfish. They take and contribute equally to the friendship. You should never feel as if you are being taken advantage of.

Encouragement

True friends are positive influences. They constantly encourage each other. They never hold each other back or put the other down. They push each other to become better personally, educationally and beyond.

Nonjudgmental

True friends do not judge each other. No matter what the other has done or said, true friends do not judge.

Consistency

True friends have constant friendship. They may not always be able to physically be there for one another but are always emotionally available. No matter how long they have gone without talking, both know that the friendship is still there.

Love

True friends love each other unconditionally. True friends understand that they may not agree with everything the other says or does. Despite disagreements, true friends have unconditional love for the other.

Togetherness

True friends make time for each other while understanding that the other is just as busy. They both understand that it takes time spent together in order to keep a friendship intact.

Respect

True friends respect each other both physically and emotionally. They do not physically or emotionally abuse the other.

Support

True friends support each other. Whatever the friend chooses to do, even if the decision doesn't appear correct, the other friend continues to fully support them.

About how many teenagers will become pregnant in the United States before the age of 18? a) 1/4 b) 1 in 3 c) 35%

a) 1/4

What is the most common STI?

Chlamydia

Passion component

Cognitive models of the component of love that comprises the motivational drives relating to sex, physical closeness, and romance and is exemplified by intense, physiologically arousing feelings of attraction.

Dating Scripts

Cognitive models of what behavior/expectations are appropriate and inappropriate within the context of a dating relationship.

What Role do Friends Play?

Companionship, Stimulation, Support (Physical and psychological), Social comparison, A safe environment, Intimacy and affection.

Consumate Love

Has intimacy, commitment, and passion

Erikson believed that the development of ______ had to precede the development intimacy.

Identity

Romantic Love

Lacks commitment, but has intimacy and passion

Infatuated Love

Lacks intimacy and commitment, but has passion

Empty Love

Lacks intimacy and passion, but has commitment

Fatuous Love

Lacks intimacy, but has passion and commitment

Nonlove

Lacks intimacy, compassion and commitment

Liking

Lacks passion and commitment, but has intimacy

Companionate Love

Lacks passion, but has intimacy and commitment

Emotional Isolation

Loneliness in which adolescents feel a lack of deep emotional attachment to one specific person.

Social Isolation

Loneliness in which adolescents suffer from a lack of friends ,associates, or relatives.

What is the double standard referring to when it is talked about in a sexual context?

Men who have lots of sex are praised while women are shamed.

As adolescents progress from early to late adolescence they are likely to conform: a) less to anyone and become more autonomous b) increasingly more to parents than to peers c) increasingly more to peers than parents

a) less to anyone and become more autonomous

Informal and formal groups composed of individuals of approximately the same age with approximately the same kinds of status are referred to as: a) peer groups b) cliques c) cohorts

a) peer groups

One important rule of friendships during adolescents is to do what? a) social comparison b) companionship c) intimacy and affection

a) social comparison

Labels refer to groups of: a) cliques b) crowds c) cohort groups

b) crowds

If they have social concerns such as dress or music, adolescents are likely to turn to whom for advice? a) parents b) peers c) teachers

b) peers

Erikson viewed the strong sexual desires of adolescents as: a) real intimacy b) pseudo intimacy c) indicator that adolescents are developing an identity

b) pseudo intimacy

What is the term that is referred to as the social rank that an adolescent holds within a peer group? a) role b) status c) seniority

b) status

During the transition from early childhood to adolescence boys primarily interact with boys, girls primarily interact with girls, a phenomenon known as: a) segregation b) sex different-ion c) sex cleavage

c) sex cleavage

Sexuality becomes a central aspect of adolescents lives partly because: a) influence of the media b) children do no think about sex until after adolescence c) their physical maturation associated with puberty

c) their physical maturation associated with puberty

During middle and late adolescence teenager turn to _______ on a wide variety of topics. a) parents b) peers c) teachers d) person they view as an expert

d) person they view as an expert