How have changes in the schools, workplace, and society resulted in the formation of the adolescent peer group?
Are adolescents more or less isolated from adults than in previous generations?  Other cultures?
What does the term "latch key" mean?  What impact does "latch-key" status have on adolescent development?

What are the advantages and disadvantages to adolescent peer group involvement?  Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?
What potential impact does the peer group have on adolescent psychosocial development?
How are adolescent peer groups composed?
Be able to define the terms sex cleavage, cliques, crowds, and participant observation.
How does crowd status influence adolescent behavior?  How are adolescent peer groups segregated?
What is a dominance hierarchy?

Be able to describe the popular, neglected, controversial, rejected (including subtypes), and average adolescents in some detail.
What is their prognosis for adjustment during adolescence and adulthood?
What are some interventions that have been designed to help unpopular children?

Be able to give a historical framework for the development of secondary education in the US.
Be able to discuss and give examples of how debates over the curriculum have changed as society has changed.
Be able to describe in detail the relative impact of school/class size, age grouping, tracking (see book), school desegregation (see book),
and teacher behavior (i.e., classroom climate) on adolescent development.
What impact does the extra curricular have on adolescent development?  What is meant by the term "overstaffed"?

Be able to compare adolescent work today with adolescent behavior in the early part of this century as well as during 1940-1950.
How does adolescent work in the culture compare with adolescent behaviors in other cultures?
What are the different types of adolescent work?  What are the more common part-time jobs?
What percentage of high schoolers will hold some type of part-time employment?
What are the influences of part-time work on adolescent development?

What are the effects of long work hours on adolescent development on academic achievement,
psychosocial development, and psychological problems?  Be able to define and provide examples of the terms premature affluence,
worker cynicism, occupational deviance. What is the displacement hypothesis?
 Be able to describe preexisting differences between students who will eventually choose to work vs. not work.

How much time do adolescents spend on leisure activities compared to other activities?
What are the more common leisure activities adolescents engage in?

Describe basic changes in self concept and self-esteem that occur during adolescence and indicate how these
changes trigger identity development.  What is the difference between barometric and baseline self-esteem?
Why would barometric self-esteem be more "volatile" during adolescence?
What is meant by the idea that adolescent self-esteem shows different "developmental trajectories"?

Be familiar with Erikson's theory.  What factors determine adolescent identity status?
Erikson argued in the 1950's that an adolescent should have obtained an interpersonal and career identity by age 17 or 18.
Does this happen in the 1990's?  Define:  ethnic identity and androgyny.