PSYC 3310 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Adolescence, Major Depressive Disorder, Canada

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3310
• Professor: Jocelyn B.Proulx

Document Summary

Applications: ways of taking knowledge about adolescents that is derived from research and putting it to practical use. Educated consumers: those whose understanding of the field of adolescence and of the ways knowledge is gathered allows them to judge the strengths and weaknesses of new findings. Defining adolescence: adolescence is a name we use to single out a particular segment of a lifespan, some ways of defining the age boundaries of adolescence. Leave home, get a job, enter steady relationship. 5: intended to keep them dependent and prevent them from competing with adults for jobs. German romantic poets such as goethe and schiller: sturm und drang or storm and stress: the belief that adolescence is necessarily a very tumultuous period. Baby boomers (1960s: during the 1960s, the proportion of adolescents in the population increased by as much as 30%, became politically and socially minded, eg. , protests against racism and war.