...Is There A Typical American Teenager? I loved high school. I really did. I loved the football games, the dances, the people (sometimes), the clubs, my teachers, my friends, the list goes on. I probably liked high school more than a teenager usually does (I wasn't as eager to leave at graduation time as everyone else seemed to be). Throughout high school, judging by myself and all of my dynamic peers, it never once occurred to me who was 'typical" and who was not. However even at nineteen, my perception of a "typical" American teenager is the same as it was when I was seventeen: angst-y, dramatic, gossipy, party-hungry, and sexual. So if I was still in high school and had the same image of a "typical" teen as I do now, yet no one around me really embodied it, why did I have that image? Stereotypes. It is because of stereotypes that adults, and yes, even teenagers believe that said traits are what the typical American teenager embodies. There are stereotypes that classify 'cliques' in high school, and imply that all schools have cliques, but the main stereotype of "typical" teens seems to be one that groups all teens together under a view similar to mine of a "typical" teenager. These stereotypes are perpetuated mainly through media: movies, books, songs, and even news. They paint a picture of a teen who is, in my opinion after my own experiences and especially after watching American Teen, not very accurate. Having been an American teen, and being around them for so many years...
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...FINAL ESSAY Your name Course Name Date 1. Describe the major hormonal changes that occur during adolescence. Describe girls’ reactions to menarche and boys’ reactions to spermarche during puberty. What factors influence the way adolescents respond? Describe the impact of puberty on parent–child interaction and the adaptive value of this change in adolescents’ relationships with their parents. Hormonal change is at its peak during adolescence and is a period of rapid psychological and physiological transformation. During puberty boys and girls sweat and their oil glands become more active. This will result in body odour and acne. They also get underarm and pubic hair in the body. The brain releases Gonadotropin – releasing hormone (GnRH) for stimulating pituitary gland. Pituitary gland is also known as the Master gland releases luteinizing hormones and follicle stimulating hormone. In boys, interstitial cell stimulating hormone and it stimulates interstitial cells to produce to from hormones in male organ of testicles. Both male and females have estrogens and androgen in their body in low level and after puberty, males begin to have more androgen including testosterone. In female they get more oestrogen as puberty crosses. Menarche is the first menstrual bleeding in a girl and her reaction to this event can be both emotional and physical. It is a sign of growing up and happens between the age of 9 and 15 years. The girls usually show stress, irritability and...
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...in a 50 year old mindset in a 18 year old body. For me “growing up” felt like it never ended. High School was the breeding ground for stereotypes and cliques. For a lot of people it provided a sense of comfort, to me, it was a living hell. Everyone seemed to fit in one perfectly except for me. However, over the years, I have learned to master the art of “floating around”. There were several points in my high school career that I was friends with the athletes, nerds, artist, and yes even some of the “popular” kids. Though I had friends they never quite understood me. This caused me a lot of anxiety and loneliness. They could never pinpoint who I was as a person. It was like trying to solve a rubix cube. Some got my artistic side, others my somewhat athletic side, and even on a rare occasion some actually knew who the heck Tom Petty was....
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...An analysis of generic conventions in the trailers for the movies ‘John Tucker Must Die’ & ‘Mean Girls’ An analysis in terms of generic conventions in the trailers for the movies “John Tucker must die” and “Mean Girls”. Genre is defined as ‘A large category of stories united by their particular settings, characters, themes and narrative conflicts’ (Worland 2007, pg15). This assignment will look at the generic conventions a coming of age/ teen film (what we expect to see), aspects such as typical situations, stock characters, style, icons and setting. In terms of themes in coming of age (teen films) (subjects that are dealt with within the text) they tend to focus around, first love, rebellion, and conflict with parents, teen angst or alienation. In terms of what we would typically see within the genre ‘teen/coming of age’ film it is in the interest of the target audience and making the plot relatable and focus on their interests. The first trailer to be analysed is “Mean Girls”, a teen movie released in 2004. The style of “Mean Girls” is glossy, the use of high key lighting creates an expensive look and the contrast of high/bright colours makes the film more vivid and eye catching the use of the bright colours encourages a cheerful and young audience. In the first shot we see ‘Kady Heron’ in class she looks bland and has no character and is introduced as the new ‘student’ which is typical for the plot of a teen (coming of age movie) and the non-diegetic sound tracking...
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...Make Friends | Parenting - Yahoo Shine 11/19/13 5:52 AM Home Mail News Sports Finance Weather Games Groups Answers Screen Flickr Mobile Sign In More Mail Search Shine Search Web The Surprising Way Teenagers Make Friends By Elise Solé, Shine Staff | Parenting – 4 hours ago Watch a classic teen movie like “The Breakfast Club” or “Mean Girls,” and you may think you have high school life figured out: Kids make friends based on what group they identify with, be it the jocks, the cheerleaders, the geeks, the weirdos, or some other clique. However, a new study of 3,000 students published Saturday by Michigan State University smashes stereotypes about the way teens pair off in school. “People want to believe that high school kids are making friends based on what clique they identify with, but that’s not completely true,” Kenneth Frank, PhD, a professor at Michigan State University's College of Education, tells Yahoo Shine. “People may rely on these stereotypes as a reference point to make sense of how high school kids operate: however, the classes students take are also an important indicator of who they’ll be friends with." Universal Studios The study found that kids will seek out like-minded people within the pool of peers they have access to. In other words, if your child loves playing musical instruments, he won’t necessarily make an effort to meet musical kids from other classes, but if there’s a trumpet player in his chemistry...
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...Jocks, nerds, stoners, band kids, and the “it” girls are all groups that we automatically and exclusively associate with a high school environment; how many times have we stopped to consider where these segregated cliques originated or the purpose of their existence in our society? In the 2007 film, Mean Girls, the directors portrayed a comedic overrepresentation of these specialized groups in a way that actually raises a myriad of sociological questions regarding the inner workings of high school social behavior. Taking a closer look at this satirical, lighthearted movie can provide a sufficient amount of insight about how social fact and the social construction of reality dictate our behavior and our perspectives on society and the roles we play in it. I should start by explaining...
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...Making friends in school Besides getting an education, making friends in school is probably one of them most important parts of growing up. Having friends in school can keep you motivated to attend school every day. If you don’t have any friends in school you may feel alone and that school is not a fun place to be. Follow these helpful steps and you should be making friends in no time. First off the person should be kind to whoever he or she meets at the school. This is where the old saying don’t judge a book by its cover comes into play. They should remember that in the school, they will find kids their age that have some of the same interest as they do. They should remember don’t judge others before they meet them. Be yourself, they should never change who they are to try and fit in. If their friends don’t accept them for them, they’re not there real friends. Most people belong to a certain clique, simply because they are being themselves and their unique personalities and interests fall into a certain stereotype. For example, someone who is naturally athletic may become a jock in high school or someone who is drawn to playing instruments may be classified as a band geek. Many people can tell if someone is faking a personality, so don’t try hard to fit into a certain clique, it will just happen naturally. The student should be as confident as they can be. There’s nothing that attracts people more than someone who’s secure in who they are. They should have a good attitude;...
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...STUDENT NUMBER : 51292254 MODULE : PYC4805 ASSIGNMENT : 01 UNIQUE NUMBER : 836372 DUE DATE : 15 APRIL 2016 QUESTION 1 - - Minds ability to control irrelevant stimuli to the task at hand. - Knowledge of Cognitive Capabilities Attentional Strategies Inhibition From infancy the ability to inhibit thoughts enhances. "By clearing unnecessary stimuli, inhibition increases available space in working memory." (Berk, 2013, p. 288). - Has 4 phases: 1. 2. 3. 4. - production deficiency control deficiency utilization deficiency effective strategy use - Children with attention, behaviour and learning problems suffer with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) - - - “Gains in sustained attention depend on rapid growth of the prefrontal cortex, the capacity to generate increasingly complex play goals, and adult scaffolding of attention"(Berk, 2013, p. 316). 2 Vital Components - - ATTENTION - - - Rehearsal - information is constantly repeated until it becomes part of the working memory. Organization - way in which we process information and arrange them accordingly. - - - Knowledge & Sematic Memory Is declarative and involves storing information about the world and general knowledge in the long term memory. Memory strategies and extensive knowledge goes hand in hand. develops early Metacognitive knowledge therefore becomes more integrated and complex. Metacognitive Knowledge As children grow they become more conscious of their cognitive capacities and...
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...the time school started I was desperate to make friends. “It’s fear that makes us lose our conscience” and I was very fearful about being alone (Satrapi 144). Fear worked its magic own me; I was more willing to do things that are against my morals. I was willing to go out drinking and partying, which I am against. When I went to Germany I went to a party, because when in Germany you party. Against my initial thoughts, the party was entertaining. We were celebrating someone’s birthday and everyone at the party was around my age. I was the only sober person there, but drunk people are fun to interact with. However, at one point I was talking to someone who pregamed too hard. During the conversation she turned towards me and vomited. At my...
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...girls 2004, was directed by Mark Waters. Based of a book by Rosalind Wiseman “Queen Bees and Wannabes” and screenplay by Tina Fey. The movie was first developed by Tina Fey, calling Saturday Night Live’s producer Lorne Michaels to suggest Queen Bees and Wannabes if it could be turned into a film. Borrowing elements from the book, she then rewrote the plot from her own high school experience. Lindsay Lohan first read Regina George’s line but the casting team felt like she was more fitting into their Cady’s character and that it would harm her reputation at that time. Rachel McAdams was casted because Tina Fey felt her being “kind and polite made her perfect for an evil-spirited character. Amanda Seyfried also read lines for Regina’s role but the producers suggested her for Karen due to her “spacey and silly sense of humor”. Lacey Chabert and...
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...Mean Girls is a film about an adolescent foreign student, Cady, who moves from Africa to a suburban area in Illinois (Lorne, Shimkin, & Waters, 2004). Consequently, she had to give up homeschooling. Cady is introduced to a typical, public high school full of cliques, which makes her question her individuality in terms of popularity. After befriending two outcasts, she ironically is drawn to the “plastics” – a group of domineering, popular girls. Cady is persuaded by her two unpopular friends to falsify a friendship with the plastics in order to reveal their deepest secrets and ultimately destroy their clique. Unfortunately, Cady ends up becoming one of the plastics herself, which causes her to lose connections with both cliques. Cady...
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...Headnote This two-part exploratory study utilized a social cognitive theory framework in documenting gender portrayals in teen movies and investigating the influence of exposure to these images on gender-based beliefs about friendships, social aggression, and roles of women in society. First, a content analysis of gender portrayals in teen movies was conducted, revealing that female characters are more likely to be portrayed as socially aggressive than male characters. Second, college students were surveyed about their teen movie-viewing habits, gender-related beliefs, and attitudes. Findings suggest that viewing teen movies is associated with negative stereotypes about female friendships and gender roles. Research examining the effects of media exposure demonstrates that media consumption has a measurable influence on people's perceptions of the real world, and, regardless of the accuracy of these perceptions, they are used to help guide subsequent attitudes, judgments, and actions. For example, these results have been yielded for viewing media representations of race,1 the mentally ill,2 and the elderly.3 Past research additionally indicates that watching televised gender portrayals has an effect on individuals' real-world gender-based attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.4 Based on this research, and the tenets of social cognitive theory, it would be expected that consumption of teen movies would have an analogous influence on audience members' gender-based attitudes and beliefs...
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...is something that people never seem to think about, until we are put in a situation, in which we then become aware that we are different. Our knowledge of culture, ethnicity and identity is subconsciously internalized on a daily basis through constant social interactions. Although the concepts of race and ethnicity are socially constructed, they are real in their consequences. Their affects on the social world can be seen from my very own experiences from institutions, to peer groups, to media representations, and lastly, to how I’ve come to view my own sense of identity. Growing up in a predominantly white neighborhood as a child allowed me to constantly become aware that I was different. Through interactions with my peers in elementary school, I noticed that my hair was a different texture, that my color was a lot darker than most, and that I was different. “Give the horse back its hair” were comments that lingered throughout my junior high days, where I struggled to fit in by putting hair extensions in my hair. Although I longed to feel a part of the bigger group, I kept sane by hanging with other minorities, they were my...
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...Role schemas are defined as the norms and expected behaviours of a specific role in society. It also goes into say that the roles and expectations associated with these categories are often referred to as stereotypes. When Cady first comes to the high school she is met with The Plastics, Cady then goes on to say how she if from Africa. Karen who is referred to as the dumb blonde says “so, if you’re from Africa, why are you white?” In this clip, Cady’s background does not fit into Karen’s pre-existing schema of what African natives look like. Another example of role schemas is when Cady, Janice and Damian first meet and talk about where to sit in the cafeteria. Janis goes on to say, “Where you sit in the cafeteria is crucial because you got...
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...Adolescent Psychology 234 Mid Term Mid Term Due – March 31, 2014 The mid term noted below is based on our class lectures, discussion and the information cloistered within our textbook “Adolescence” by Robert S. Feldman covering the material found in chapters 1 through 7. Please answer all questions using a Scantron form and a number 2 pencil. Remember to put your name and 234 on your Scantron. Good luck. Dr.B MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) The perspective of development that examines adolescent development through the lens of brain processes is the 1) _________ A) social-cognitive perspective. B) psychoanalytic perspective. C) cognitive neuroscience perspective. D) behavioral perspective. 2) Vygotsky'ʹs sociocultural theory emphasizes 2) _________ A) cognitive neuroscience processes. B) the interconnectedness of the influences of development. C) daily reinforcements one receives in the environment. D) how cognitive development proceeds as a result of social interactions. 3) Which of the following is a criticism of the Piaget'ʹs cognitive perspective? 3) _________ A) Piaget'ʹs cognitive perspective overemphasizes the universality of cognitive stages. B) Piaget'ʹs cognitive...
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