CFD 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Major Depressive Episode, Media Multitasking, List Of Sovereign States By Suicide Rate
11 Nov 2016
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Child-rearing practices: authoritative parenting, joint parent-adolescent decision making, parent involvement in adolescent"s education. Peer influences: peer valuing of and support for high achievement. School characteristics: warm, supportive teachers who develop relationships with parents, learning activities that encourage high-level thinking, active student participation. Employment schedule: job commitment limited to < 15 hours per week, high-quality vocational education for non-college-bound students. More than two-thirds of 8- to 18-year-olds report media multitasking while studying, including: listening to music, watching tv, using the internet. Media multitasking fragments attention span, greatly reducing learning. Frequent media multitaskers report multiple executive-function difficulties in everyday life. Fantasy period: early and middle childhood, gain insight into career options. Tentative period: ages 11 to 16, evaluate careers in terms of interests, abilities, and values. Realistic period: late teens and early twenties, exploration followed by crystallization: focusing on general vocational category, then settling on single career. Depression is the most common psychological problem of adolescence.
