CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Beta Distribution, Imaginary Audience, Estrogen Receptor

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 1F90
• Professor: Dawn Zinga

Document Summary

How do we think about childhood and adolescence from a developmental perspective: conceptualizing childhood. Historical perspectives: infant & miniature adult enlightenment period and continued into the romantic period. Childhood as a specific period with goals emerged in the (cid:883)(cid:889)(cid:882)(cid:882)"s during the. Late (cid:883)(cid:890)(cid:882)(cid:882)"s and early (cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:882)(cid:882)"s gave rise to more specific developmental. Beginning of industrial period required child labor theories of childhood and adolescence: conceptualizing childhood. Historically only infancy (age 7) and adulthood. Current developmental theories: infancy: birth to one year, toddler: 1-3 years, preschool: 3-6 years, school age: 6-12 years; adolescence 12-19 years, conceptualizing adolescence. Aristotle: (cid:498)youth are heated by nature as drunken(cid:499) Socrates: (cid:498)inclined to contradict parents and tyrannize their teachers(cid:499) G. s. (all (cid:523)(cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:882)4(cid:524) a period of heightened (cid:498)storm and stress(cid:499) (cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:888)(cid:882)s and (cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:889)(cid:882)s: attempts to understand the problems as due to (cid:498)raging hormones(cid:499) The transition from: (cid:498)child(cid:499) status (cid:523)requires adult monitoring) to (cid:498)adult(cid:499) status (self- responsibility for behavior; sexual maturation; adult roles and responsibilities: conceptualizing adolescence.