Sensitivity to Reinforcement in Adolescents.

      Аннотация: The publication was written bearing in mind the significance of the sensitivity to reinforcement theory in terms of a better understanding of different reactions of the individual and the complexity of adolescence as a vital developmental period in the life of each of us. This publication will help readers better understand the developmental peculiarity of adolescence, problems, dilemmas, and hardships typically experienced by young people. In the contents you will find: On Jeffrey Gray’s Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory; Problems with Application of Gray’s Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory and Some of the Reasons for its Revision; Revised Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory; Some Problems with the Operationalization of the Revised Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory of Constructs; Some Research into Reinforcement Sensitivity in Adolescents; The Reinforcement Sensitivity Questionnaire in the Republic of Serbia (instrument description); Adolescence (Theoretical Definitions of Adolescence, Adolescence – Developmental Specificities, Adolescence – Crisis of Healthy Personality, Developmental Tasks in Adolescence); Certain practical recommendations for working with adolescents.

Ключевые слова: SENSITIVITY TO REINFORCEMENT, adolescence, PRACTICAL RECOMMENDATIONS