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During high school
- adolescents spend 2 times as much time with their peers as they spend with their parents
- - As adolescents increase the distance between themselves and their parents, they increase interactions with members of the opposite sex
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subculture
a subgroup within a culture, in this case a social culture; adolescent = social, values/morals
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crowd
- groups know for certain values, attitudes, or activities, indicates who the adolescent is
- ex. jocks - big on sports, cocky attitude; nerds - value academics - do well attitude; head-stoner-druggy like doing drugs; outcasts; trashy; goth; popular
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clique:
a group within a crowd and indicates who the adolescent's best friends are
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Positive Peer Functions
- 1. control aggressive impulses - Learn to be assertive
- 2. obtain emotional and social support and become more independent - Support
- 3. Improve social skills, develop reasoning abilities, and learn to express feelings in more mature ways
- 4. Develop attitudes toward sexuality and gender-role behavior
- 5. Strengthen moral judgment and values
- 6. Improve self-esteem
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Homosexuality
- well being dependent on acceptance from mom and dad
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Freud:
-psychoanalytic theory of homosexuality: Freud's theory that if the child's first sexual feelings about the parent of the opposite sex are strongly punished the child may develop a permanent homosexual orientation
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Learning Theory
belief that homosexuality is the result of learned experiences from significant others
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Biopsychosocial
Theory that some factor in a person's DNA affects temperament, which affects sexual orientation - hypothalamus
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Reflexive Listening
your not judging, you are accepting, not giving any suggestions, - this will help make the kid talk, think see that you are listening
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Sexual Behavior
- - look at stats on pg. 329 in paragraph
- - STI's: class of infections that are transmitted through sexual behavior (pg. 335)
- - decrease age of sexual activity starting
- - 1 million teens become pregnant each year, down 20%
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Sexual Behavior - Risk factors
- - single parent
- - sexually active sibling
- - poverty
- - sexual abuse
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Gangs
- - rules
- - better than home life
- - protection
- - the gangs the family they didnt have
- - gives them a chance to prove masculinity
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