CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nicotine, International Sleep Products Association, Estrogen Receptor
27 Jan 2018
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Critical question: how do we think about childhood and adolescence from a developmental perspective: conceptualizing childhood. Childhood as a specific period with goals emerged in the 1700"s during the enlightenment period and continued into the romantic period beginning of industrial period required child labour. Late 1800"s and early 1900"s gave rise to more specific developmental theories of childhood and adolescence: conceptualizing childhood. Historically only infancy (age 7) and adulthood current developmental theories. School age: 6-12 years; adolescence 12-19 years: conceptualizing adolescence. Aristotle: youth are heated by nature as drunken . Socrates: inclined to contradict parents and tyrannize their teachers g. s. Hall (1904) a period of heightened storm and stress . 1960s and 1970s: attempts to understand the problems as due to raging hormones : conceptualizing adolescence. The transition from: child status (requires adult monitoring) to adult status (self-responsibility for behavior; sexual maturation; adult roles and responsibilities) The developmental interval that encompasses the body and brain changes of puberty.
