Identity
The degree to which someone feels positively or negatively about themselves.
What is self-esteem?
The process in adolescence during which teens reduce their levels of emotional dependency on their caregivers.
What is detachment?
What is attachment?
The term used to explain how racism, discrimination, and other structural inequities unfairly disadvantage marginalized/underrepresented groups of students.
What the the opportunity/achievement gap?
Theory used to understand psychological disorders through a developmental perspective.
What is developmental psychopathology (DP)?
The name of the psychologist who theorized the main stages of identity development.
A commonly-used study in psychology to measure children's delay of gratification skills in a laboratory setting.
What is the Marshmallow task?
The term for individuals who do not experience any sexual attraction to others.
What is asexual?
The term for students who perform worse in school than we would otherwise expect based on their general intelligence levels & cognitive ability.
What is "underachiever"?
The group of psychosocial problems that includes problems directed outwards, towards the environment.
What are externalizing disorders?
A type of behavior that intentionally presents an inaccurate impression of oneself to other people.
What is false-self behavior?
The category of autonomy which refers to an individual's capacity to make decisions independently and follow through with them.
What is behavioral autonomy?
A type of study design that has been used in psychology research to measure teens' rejection sensitivity.
What is Cyberball?
The term that refers to how exposure to biased opinions about a social group (e.g., members of a specific gender or race/ethnicity) can impact achievement.
The most significant internalizing disorder that develops in adolescence.
What is depression?
The hypothesis that increased pressure to conform to gender roles leads individuals to further follow and enforce gender role behavior.
What is the gender intensification hypothesis?
The process in adolescence in which children develop a more mature, nuanced understanding of their parents' abilities and traits.
What is de-idealizing?
The term for how teens from different backgrounds are exposed to and educated about sexuality.
What is sexual socialization?
The name for the type of achievement orientation that believes that intelligence can grow as a result of experience & dedication.
What is incremental/mastery orientation?
The term that refers to two or more disorders presenting in a patient simultaneously.
What is co-morbidity?
The category of individuals who have neither explored nor committed to a particular identity.
What is identity diffusion?
The level of moral reasoning, according to Kohlberg, that focuses on compliance with social duties & laws.
What is the conventional level of moral reasoning?
The name of the psychologist who theorized that the primary task in adolescence is to transition from platonic intimate friendships to sexual, intimate relationships.
Who is Harry Stack Sullivan?
The resources provided to a family through exposure to art, literature, and music.
What is cultural capital?
The sub-group of individuals who demonstrate a high degree of delinquent behaviors throughout their childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.
What is life-course persistent delinquency?