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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 the typical member of a particular group is like. (jmg/2004/group profiling).
·Adolescent Generalization Gap: (John) Adelson’s concept of generalization about adolescents based on information about a limited, highly visible group of adolescents.
·The Inventionist View: The view that adolescence is a sociocultural creation. Especially important in this view are the sociocultural circumstances at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, a time when legislation was enacted that ensured the dependency of youth and made their move into the economic sphere more manageable.
·Contexts: The settings in which development occurs. These settings are influenced by historical, economic, social and cultural factors.
·Social Policy: A national government’s course of action designed to influence the welfare of its citizens.
·Generational Inequity: The unfair treatment of younger members of an aging society in which older adults pile up advantages by receiving inequitable large allocations of resources, such as Social security and Medicare. [NOTE: “In case you are worried about what’s going to become of the younger generation, it’s going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation:” -Roger Allen- Contemporary American Writer-p13; Adolescence; 10th Edition; John W. Santrock]
·Development: The pattern of change that begins at conception and continues through the lifespan. Most development involves growth, although it also includes decay (as in death and dying).
·Biological Processes: Physical changes in an individual’s body.
Cognitive Processes: Changes in an individual’s thinking and intelligence [Adolescence 10th Edition].

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