PSYC 355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Positive Youth Development, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Margaret Mead
13 Apr 2016
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Aristotle: ability to choose + self-determinaion in a. Jean-jacques rousseau: child adolescence adult, reasoning + curiosity. --20th + 21st century: g. stanley hall. S-and-s view: a charged with conlict and mood swings: margaret mead. Nature of a is sociocultural not biological. Sociohistorical circumstances included a decline in appreniceship; increased. Invenionist view mechanizaion during the industrial revoluion; age-graded schools; urbanizaion; appearance of youth groups like ymca; wriings of g. stanley hall. Schools, work, and economics are important dimensions of invenionist view. Law of increased school atendance and decreased employment. Cohort efects: inluences atributed to a person"s generaion, era, but not to actual age: 1950s to 1970s. Age of adolescence: physical + social + legal ideniies. 2 characterisics: (1) ethnic diversity (2) connecion to tech. Research showed that many millennials are more tolerant and open-minded. Most adolescents are thought as self-centered, delinquent, abnormal, deviant .
