the study of adolescence
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| storm-and-stress view | G. Stanley Hall's concept that adolescence is a turbulent time charged with conflict and mood swings.
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| inventionist view | adolescence is a sociohistorical creation. important to this view is the circumstances at the start of the 20th century-legislation ensured the dependency of youth & made their move on the economic sphere more manageable.
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| stereotype | a generalization that reflects our impressions and beliefs about a broad group of people. All stereotypes refer to an image of what they typical member of a particular group is like.
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| adolescent generalization gap | Adelson's concept of generalizations about adolescents based on information about a limited, highly visible group of adolescents.
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| contexts | the settings in which development occurs. These settings are influenced by historical, economic, social, and cultural factors.
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| social policy | a national government's course of action designed to influence the welfare of its citizens
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| generational inequity | the unfair treatment of younger members of an aging society, in which older adults pile up advantages by receiving inequitably large allocations of resources, such as social security and medicare.
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| development | the pattern of change that begins at conception and continues through the life span. most development involves growth, although it also includes decay (as in death and dying)
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| biological processes | physical changes in an individual's body.
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| cognitive processes | changes in an individual's thinking and intelligence.
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| socioeconomical process | changes in an individual's personality, emotions, relationships with other people, and social contexts.
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| prenatal period | the time from conception to birth.
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| infancy | the developmental period that extends from birth to 18 or 24 months of age
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| early childhood | the developmental period extending from the end of infancy to about 5 or 6 years of age; sometimes called the preschool years.
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| middle and late childhood | the developmental period extending from about 6 to about 10 or 11 years of age; sometimes called the elementary school years.
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| adolescence | the developmental period of transition from childhood to adulthood; it involves biological, cognitive, and socioemotional changes.
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| early adolescence | the developmental period that corresponds roughly to the middle school or junior high school years and includes most pubertal change.
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| late adolescence | approximately the latter half of the second decade of life. Career interests, dating, and identity exploration are often more pronounced in late adolescence than in early adolescence.
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| early adulthood | the developmental period beginning in the late teens or early twenties and lasting trhough the thirties
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