PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Menarche, Personal Fable, Imaginary Audience

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

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Authoritaive: the one is made/associated with posiive self-concept, the other three styles are linked and associated with negaive outcomes and negaive self-concept. Author is right but isn"t giving us all the informaion. There is a large number of experimental studies that clearly indicate a cause and efect relaionship between parening styles and childhood outcomes. Beginning and end: puberty unil full complete adult responsibiliies (self-reliant) Longer stretch: longest ime being adolescent, 1. ) Taking us longer than ever to assume adult responsibility. Who are not tradiional teenagers have not assumed full. Factors: responsibility: genes, health: healthy children will enter puberty earlier than those sick/malnourished, body size: overweight = earlier than lean, physical acivity: serious athletes (females) two years late, hormones: food/environmental hazards. Time of strife or validity: what"s happening around you. Changes that are going to prepare our bodies for reproducion and maturity: puberty: Are not directly involved in reproducion (breasts: landmarks of puberty: