BIOL1900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Phallic Stage, Puberty, Erectile Dysfunction
Document Summary
Psychosocial: erikson: social side of freud"s theory. Individuation: process of gradually attaining increased autonomy and self-directedness, adolescents become own person. Involves significant changes in relationships between adolescent and adults in their life: adolescent. Identity: state towards which one strives, various aspects of self concept in agreement, crisis. Incoherent, disjointed, incomplete sense of self: results in excessive self-consciousness, problems in work and achievement related activities. Identity foreclosure: reduced periods of exploration and experimentation, adoption of roles defined by parents or authority figures, rites of passage, doing things at certain ages. Image: appearance, costumes, accessories: argot: vocabulary and how delivered, demeanour: expression, gait, posture. Is there a youth culture: support, cultural trends appear simultaneously across regional and national borders, critics, degree of similarity between cultures of young people and cultures of their parents. Adolescence and the family: parent-adolescent relationships, conflict. Individuation and the de-idealisation of parents: begin to notice flaws in parents.
