Two researchers are debating views on adolescence. One believes that adolescence is a transition and the other believes it is a distinct developmental stage. What position would you take and why? Provide supporting evidence to support your viewpoint.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 2
Mr. Rodriguez wants to know to what extent his students have anxiety about the upcoming school music concert. He plans to poll his students and ask them three simple questions about their levels of anxiety regarding performing in the music concert. He places the three questions on a small sheet of paper and makes 15 copies. He stands near the basketball court on the school playground. Any child who walks near Mr. Rodriguez is asked to complete his three-item survey. Mr. Rodriguez is employing which type of sampling procedure?
a. Stratified sampling
b. Random sampling
c. Convenience sampling
d. Cluster sampling
The T → R transition
Adolescence is a key period for the development of lifelong interests and career paths.
The Demographic Transition
The gel–liquid crystalline phase transition in a synthetic lipid bilayer
Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood, 5th Edition
Different views of the brain