PSY 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Emerging Adulthood And Early Adulthood, Menarche, Genital Stage
6 Sep 2018
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Ch 1 adolescence: understanding past, present, and planning for future. Definition of adult based on legal definition (ability to vote), independent from parents. Culturally-bound syndrome characteristics bound to adolescents: positive - fashionable, good at sports-dance, energetic, youthful-fresh, religious, independent, ambitious, responsible, moral, negative confused, conforming. Normative transition: happen to most people at the same age i. e biological puberty, cultural changes. Idiosyncratic transition: happen to an individual at unpredictable times i. e teen moves to diff country. Phases and tasks: early adolescence (11-14), middle (15-18), late (19-22; emerging adulthood, developmental tasks associated to each phase skills, attitudes, social functions from culture. Adolescence in earlier times viewed as a distinct group for a long time: adolescents treated differently in different eras, citizenship at adulthood in ancient greece wear certain clothing at a certain age. Inventionism age of adolescence is b/c of these factors.
