PSYCH315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sigmund Freud, Margaret Mead, Jean Piaget
16 Oct 2018
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Psych 315 week 2: introduction/historical perspective/today"s adolescents. You"ll lose marks if you spell it wrong! Adolescence: adolescents: use when referring to people, adolescence: use when referring to the period of time. Affect: ie. what effect does media have on adolescents, affect: the verb; the emotion, ie. how does media affect adolescents, ie. positive, negative, flat tone/affect. Transition spanning second and third decades of life: adolescence: 10, 11, 12 18, emerging adulthood: 18 29(ish) Transition is individual: everyone experiences this differently! Socrates, aristotle, + rousseau: there was an understanding, even back in the day, of the existence of a period between childhood and adulthood that was distinctly different. Jean piaget: cognitive psychologist ! reasoning, adolescence falls under the formal operations stage, reasoning becomes strong, go from inductive to deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning: Lev vygotsky: sociocultural biological psychologist, believed you can"t just look at reasoning but also language development, social interactions will help to advance cognition.
