"...the media help create and continuously reinforce the "social scripts" that adolescents act out in their daily lives. ... This process begins early in life: due in part to societal changes, as well as in the varying styles of parenting apparent in families under stress, many children are afforded less parental time and supervision. As parental role models become less available at home, children have correspondingly less opportunity to observe appropriate models upon which to base their own life choices, interpersonal and vocational behavior, and upon which they may base their aspirations an...

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In another long-term predictive study, Felsman and Vaillant (1987) followed a group of 456 inner-city men from early adolescence to middle life. ... In an edited book, Practical Intelligence: Nature and Origins of Competence in the Everyday World, Sternberg and Wagner (1986) present a variety of studies under headings such as "Intelligence on the Job," "Intelligence in Daily Life," "The Development of Practical Intelligence," and "Cross-Cultural Approaches to Practical Intelligence." The evidence clearly indicates that intelligence, as conventionally measured, is often unrelated to practical p...

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