By the end of this chapter, students should be able to:
- Describe when adolescence begins and ends.
- Be aware of changes in the demographics of the American adolescent population.
- Understand why adolescence is becoming more prolonged.
- Know how the Internet is changing the adolescent experience.
- Recognize how changes in their parents’ workplace impact adolescents’ lives.
- Explain how the educational needs of adolescents are evolving.
- Describe the ways that the family lives of adolescents are different now than in the past.
- Be familiar with how the sexual revolution has affected the adolescent experience.
- Be aware of the ways in which violence may touch adolescents’ lives.
- Understand what a correlation is and what it is not.
- Know the difference between true and quasi-experiments.
