PSYCH 3AB3 Lecture 2: Adolescence CH1- Jan 10
30 Jan 2019
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Who is an adolescent: different boundaries in different contexts, two sorts of transitions, normative: happen to most at same age, idiosyncratic: happen at individual, unpredictable times, phases and tasks, early, middle, and late adolescence, developmental tasks. Makes notes from table 1. 1 of textbook: chronological age, physical, sexual, familial, psychosocial. Adolescence in 20th century north america and today: 20th century teens, teenagers in novels, movies, and comics, baby boom after ww2, teens today, effects of changing families structures, growing influence of peers. Industrialized nations (north america, western europe, japan: worldwide, eastern europe, former soviet republics, east asia (china, indonesia, philippians) Population pyramid developed vs developing countries: figure 1. 1 textbook. Where is adolescence going: the idea that schooling should be for all, benefits and dangers of moving to the city, necessities for survival and growth. Multiple theories of adolescence: biological and evolutionary theories.
