Developmental Theories
Key Terms
Leaving Home
Education & Employment
Challenges
100
Erikson's "dilemma" that occurs during adolescence/early adulthood.
What is identity vs. role confusion?
100
Adulthood as defined as age is known as the age of majority. In Canada, this age is ______.
What is 18?
100
The gender that tends to leave home later.
What is male?
100
The gender that attends and graduates from post-secondary education in higher numbers.
What is female?
100
The child mortality rate during the pre-industrial age.
What is 50%
200
According to Levinson, how you see yourself in the adult world is your _________.
What is Dream?
200
A grouping or categorizing of people based on age is referred to as a ____________.
What is a cohort?
200
The term for someone who has moved out of the family home, but has returned for some reason.
What is "boomerang kid"?
200
The century in which education became available to most children in Canada.
What is the early 21st century?
200
The state in which a person is inadequately and/or temporarily housed (including "couch surfing")
What is hidden homelessness?
300
The "clock" that Jane Loevinger believes is responsible for determining how a person develops.
What is the psychological clock?
300
The most prevalent role behaviours in a group or society.
What are norms?
300
Two factors that could cause adolescents to leave home earlier:
What are: abuse, conflict in the home, gender differences, poverty
300
How most graduates find a job.
What is through family and friends?
300
Two disorders that are on the rise among Canadian youth.
What are anxiety and depression?
400
The six stages of the Family Life Cycle.
What are: Leaving Home, Getting Married/Committing to a Couple Relationship, Parenting the First Child, Living with an adolescent, Launching the children, Retirement/Old Age.
400
When a person makes a transition to a new role and has to learn the behaviours and expectations of this new role.
What is resocialization?
400
All jobs require more ________ and ___________ today.
What are education and technical skills?
400
Three warning signs that someone might be suicidal.
What are: depression, changes in appearance or behaviour, drug and/or alcohol abuse, giving away possessions, etc.
500
Klaus Riegel's 4 interrelated internal and external dimensions of development.
What are: 1) The Individual Psychological Dimension 2) The Individual Biological Dimension 3) The Cultural-Sociological Dimension 4) The Environmental Dimension
500
Today, we put more value on education as job training than on education's intrinsic interest. This is called ________.
What is credentialism?
500
The legal age for leaving school during the 20th century.
What is 14?