KEY TERMS

Match each of the terms on the left with its definition on the right. Click on the term first and then click on the matching definition. As you match them correctly they will move to the bottom of the activity.

Question

identity versus role confusion
identity achievement
role confusion
foreclosure
moratorium
gender identity
parental monitoring
peer pressure
deviancy training
sexual orientation
familism
clinical depression
rumination
suicidal ideation
parasuicide
cluster suicides
adolescence-limited offender
life-course-persistent offender
generational forgetting
Erikson’s term for the attainment of identity, or the point at which a person understands who he or she is as a unique individual, in accord with past experiences and future plans.
Thinking about suicide, usually with some serious emotional and intellectual or cognitive overtones.
A person’s acceptance of the roles and behaviors that society associates with the biological categories of male and female.
Encouragement to conform to one’s friends or contemporaries in behavior, dress, and attitude; usually considered a negative force, as when adolescent peers encourage one another to defy adult authority.
A term that refers to whether a person is sexually and romantically attracted to others of the same sex, the opposite sex, or both sexes.
Destructive peer support in which one person shows another how to rebel against authority or social norms.
Feelings of hopelessness, lethargy, and worthlessness that last two weeks or more.
Several suicides committed by members of a group within a brief period of time.
Erikson’s term for the fifth stage of development, in which the person tries to figure out “Who am I?” but is confused as to which of many possible roles to adopt.
An adolescent’s choice of a socially acceptable way to postpone making identity-achievement decisions. Going to college is a common example.
Erikson’s term for premature identity formation, which occurs when an adolescent adopts parents’ or society’s roles and values wholesale, without questioning or analysis.
Parents’ ongoing awareness of what their children are doing, where, and with whom.
Any potentially lethal action against the self that does not result in death. (Also called attempted suicide or failed suicide.)
A person whose criminal activity stops by age 21.
The idea that each new generation forgets what the previous generation learned. As used here, the term refers to knowledge about the harm drugs can do.
Repeatedly thinking and talking about past experiences; can contribute to depression.
A person whose criminal activity typically begins in early adolescence and continues throughout life; a career criminal.
A situation in which an adolescent does not seem to know or care what his or her identity is. (Sometimes called identity or role diffusion.)
The belief that family members should support one another, sacrificing individual freedom and success, if necessary, in order to preserve family unity and protect the family from outside sources.