Be familiar with Anna Freud's & Peter Blo's approaches to autonomy, detachment, and attachment.
Be able to define and describe changes in emotional, behavioral, and value autonomy during adolescence.
Describe  ways in which adolescents become emotionally autonomous from parents.
What types of parents are more likely to encourage autonomy? Discourage?
Based on this research, is Freud's or Blo's perspectives supported?

Describe how we undergo changes in decision making skills during adolescence.
Agree or disagree, "Over the course of adolescence peer pressure increases and adolescents
are more likely to behaviorally conform to both parent and peer pressure".
What time during adolescence might susceptibility to peer pressure be the highest?

 Describe Kohlberg's stages of moral development.  Are adolescents more likely to be conventional
or principled thinkers?  Why?  Based upon your reading of the autonomy chapter,
would you agree with Freud's position that heated conflict with parents, and peer group
immersion are necessary for the development of autonomy? Be able to overview Gilligan's theory.

Be able to describe transformations in attachment relations with parents, same-sexed and opposite
sexed-peers during adolescence.  What are cognitive working models of attachment?
Sullivan stipulated that peers replace parents as important attachment figures.
Agree or disagree?  How  do our friendships change in meaning over adolescence?
Be able to describe the role of same and opposite sexed peers for intimacy development.
Why are intimate relations important?

Be able to describe sex differences in intimacy development during adolescence.  Based upon the lecture,
would you agree that casual dating promotes the development of intimacy.  A theorist once stipulated,
"Steady opposite-sexed relationships promotes the expression of  intimacy for girls, for boys it develops it".
Agree?   Could adolescent steady relationships be described as deep, mature, and highly intimate?
Describe the whos, hows, and whens of adolescent breakups.
Why is the understanding of intimacy development necessary in predicting relationship success?

Describe Mead & Benedict's  sexuality research.  Describe adolescents' sexual attitudes and behavior.
 How have these attitudes and behaviors changed over the years.  How are sexually active adolescents
different from nonactive ones?  Be able to discuss the prevalence of sexual orientation.
Be able to discuss adolescent contraceptive (non)use.  Know the data on teen pregnancy and childbirth, past and present.
What are the consequences of teen pregnancy?  Intervention and prevention programs that work or do not work?
Consequences of school and family connectedness on sexual behavior?

Distinguish between achievement motivation, educational attainment, academic &
occupational achievement and factors that predict these concepts.
Know current statistical trends regarding these issues among high school and college students.
Be able to describe Dweck's theory of achievement-related beliefs in some detail.

Be able to describe some general principles of adolescent psychosocial problems.
Be able to describe stress and coping theory and adolescent depression.
Know the causes and consequences of adolescence substance use and abuse.