Introduction
This test page offers fun and informal ways to test your knowledge on Dunphy's determinants of relational influences.
Key Terms
- adolescence Adolescence, these years from puberty to adulthood, may be roughly divided into three stages: early adolescence, generally ages eleven to fourteen; middle adolescence, ages fifteen to seventeen; and late adolescence, ages eighteen to twenty-one. In addition to physiological growth, seven key intellectual, psychological and social developmental tasks are squeezed into these years. The fundamental purpose of these tasks is to form one’s own identity and to prepare for adulthood.
- cliques small groups who interact frequently
- crowds larger groups of adolescents (or others) with similar identities or affiliations.
- Dexter Dunphy A sociologist in the 1960s who engaged in the participant observation where he observed the social activities of adolescents to determine rules governing their social activity.
- dyad pairs of close friends or lovers
- stage 1 the stage in which adolescents form cliques of four two ten people, typically of the same sex
- stage 2 the stage in which unisex cliques interact to form crowds
- stage 3 the stage in which crowd structures change and higher-ranking clique members form heterosexual cliques
- stage 4 the stage in which a fully developed crowd is formed by a number of close couples
- stage 5 the stage in which couples begin to separate
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