HD 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Cognition, Egocentrism, Imaginary Audience

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HD 302
• Professor: Victoria Peeples

Document Summary

What powers forced the emergence of adolescence? social & economic. Industrial revolution: prior to the industrial revolution - ___farming___ -gradual shift from childhood to adulthood, industrial revolution - more __complex__ Brought a need for adolescence to be taught in schools because factory jobs were more complex than farms back then. __factories needed trained workers___ took away __family role__ to certify their children as adults: mass immigration - ___americanize__, jobs. Education became important, but it was more economic because there were less opportunities so they gave them to adults and sent kids to school. * g. stanley hall (1844-1924) father of the study of adolescence founder of apa. 1st american to __initiate study of kids____ brought freud to u. s. 1904 __adolescence__, first to use this term and in 1904 adolescence was a two volume book of the study at the time: stanley hall focus on darwinian evolution (survival of the fittest)