PSY 3122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Preadolescence, Menopause, Cybersex

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3122
• Professor: Krystelle Shaughnessy

Document Summary

Points to consider: data, retrospective, children as participants, cyshhas & cyas. Factors influencing psychosocial development: modelling, child-rearing practices, parental reactions, parent-child sexual communication, sexual experiences, cultural factors. Infancy (0 2 years: freud, capacity, self-stimulation, normal, natural, common, 2. 5/3 years old, broad intimate and sensual experience, attachment. Childhood (3 7 years: curiosity and exploration, awareness of genital differences, learning social restrictions, sex play, other-sex, own-sex. Preadolescence (8 12 years: transition, masturbation, sexual attraction, gender segregation, mixed gender groups dyads, dating, sexual activity, values and information. Variations in marking puberty: cultural, start earlier/later. Adolescence (13 19 years: key features, interest, rapid physical transition, cognitive & emotional changes, changing relationships, pervasive view of adolescent sexuality. Adolescence: health concerns: highest rates of sti"s, adolescent pregnancy rates. Sexual maturity: sexual orientation and identity, sexual likes and dislikes, sexual communication, responsible sexual decision making, develop and maintain intimacy. Life stage scripts: traditional script, alternate scripts.