PSYC 2235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Psychosexual Development, Identity Crisis, Deductive Reasoning
18 Nov 2016
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Psyc 2235 - lecture 11 - cognitive, social and personality development in adolescence. Piaget"s formal operational stage: adolescents learn to reason logically about abstract concepts. Systematic problem-solving: the process of finding a solution to a problem by testing single factors. Logic: hypothetico-deductive reasoning: the ability to derive conclusions from hypothetical premises, naive idealism: beliefs and solutions that are not very realistic or logical. Psychoanalytic perspectives: freud (psychosexual maturity, erikson. Identity vs. role confusion: stage during which adolescence attain a sense of who they are. Identity crisis: psychological state of emotional turmoil that arises when an adolescent"s sense of self becomes unglued so a new, more mature sense of self can be achieved: marcia"s theory of identity achievement. Identity achievement (high conflict, high resolution): person has gone through a crisis and reached a commitment. Moratorium (high conflict, low resolution): person is going through a crisis, but no commitment has been made.
