The Kaiser Family Foundation's recent survey on media use in the Untied States documented that adolescent media use had increased dramatically in the past decade. Adding up the daily media use figures to obtain weekly media use leads to the staggering levels of more than 60 hours a week of media use by 11- to 14-year olds and almost 56 hours a week by 15- to 18- year olds.
Identity ________ is James Marcia's term for the status of adolescents who are in the midst of a crisis, and whose commitment levels are either absent or only vaguely defined.
Marcia considers crisis to be a period of identity development during which the adolescent is exploring alternatives.
The status of individuals who have made a commitment but have not experienced a crisis is known as identity foreclosure. This occurs most often when parents hand down commitments to their adolescents, usually in an authoritarian way, before adolescents have had a chance to explore different approaches, ideologies, and vocations on thier own.
In the formal operational stage, adolescents begin to think more as a scientist thinks, devising plans to solve problems and systematically testing solutions. This type of problem solving requires:
Three stages characterize the development of romantic relationships in adolescence: (1) entering into romantic attractions and affiliations at about age 11 to 13, (2) exploring romantic relationships at approximately age 14 to 16, and (3) consolidating dyadic romantic bonds at about age 17 to 19.
A rite of passage is a ceremony or ritual that marks an individual's transition from one status to another.