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Balk, David E. – Prevention Researcher, 2011
In order to provide the best support possible to grieving youth it is important to understand how bereavement impacts adolescent development and how adolescent development impacts bereavement. In this article, prominent youth bereavement author, David Balk, explores these two key components focusing on cognitive, behavioral, and affective…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Grief, Adolescents, Cognitive Processes
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Bolling, Danielle Z.; Pitskel, Naomi B.; Deen, Ben; Crowley, Michael J.; Mayes, Linda C.; Pelphrey, Kevin A. – Developmental Science, 2011
Adolescence is a period of development in which peer relationships become especially important. A computer-based game (Cyberball) has been used to explore the effects of social exclusion in adolescents and adults. The current functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study used Cyberball to extend prior work to the cross-sectional study of…
Descriptors: Brain, Social Isolation, Cognitive Processes, Neurological Organization
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Somerville, Leah H.; Jones, Rebecca M.; Casey, B. J. – Brain and Cognition, 2010
Adolescence is a developmental period that entails substantial changes in affective and incentive-seeking behavior relative to both childhood and adulthood, including a heightened propensity to engage in risky behaviors and experience persistent negative and labile mood states. This review discusses the emotional and incentive-driven behavioral…
Descriptors: Cues, Adolescent Development, Social Environment, Affective Behavior
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Hardin, Michael G.; Schroth, Elizabeth; Pine, Daniel S.; Ernst, Monique – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2007
Background: Developmental changes in cognitive and affective processes contribute to adolescent risk-taking behavior, emotional intensification, and psychopathology. The current study examined adolescent development of cognitive control processes and their modulation by incentive, in health and psychopathology. Predictions include 1) better…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Eye Movements, Psychopathology, Adolescents
Schurian, Walter; Lee, Mickey M. – 1980
Moral desperation has traditionally been defined as an individual's lack of social adjustment patterns in regard to his/her particular stage of cognitive development. Based on the assumption that the overall behavior patterns of adolescents differ in different social class settings, moral desperation was hypothesized to be a complex,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Behavioral Science Research
Han, Jong-ha; And Others – 1983
The cognitive development and affective development of Korean secondary school students were studied to obtain information for the development of curricula and texts, particularly for teaching the English language. Subjects responding to objective tests included 3,164 male and female students from 54 classes of 18 middle schools, and 1,981 male…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Affective Behavior, Affective Measures, Cognitive Development
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Thomas, Angela – E-Learning, 2006
In this article the author explores the seamlessness between children's online and offline worlds. For children, there is no dichotomy of online and offline, or virtual and real; the digital is so much intertwined into their lives and psyche that the one is entirely enmeshed with the other. Despite early research pointing to the differences that…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Children, Childhood Attitudes, Longitudinal Studies