PSY310H5 Lecture 1: Introduction to Adolescence Part 1
Assignments
• Common stereotypes about adolescence
o A ball of hormones
o Disrespectful
• Millennials
o Lazy
o Irresponsible
o Always on social media
• Could be about characteristics about adolescence or about adolescence as a life stage in general,
as long as it is a popular belief
• We can also apply stereotypes to emerging adults
• Assignment 1
o Summarize the articles
• Assignment 2
o Base position on critical analysis
Slide 17
• Normative transitions happen to everyone
• Idiosyncratic transitions
o Something that occurs to some but not all adolescents
o For example
• The death of a parent
• Parents getting divorced
• Cognitive transition
o The ways in which you think, change
• Adolescents become better able to think more abstractly and hypothetically
• Social transitions
o One aspect of growing up is how the society sees you
o Adolescence comes with more privileges as well as more responsibility
• Contexts in which development takes place
• There are some adolescents who start before and some who start after and some go through
adolescence quicker
• Adolescents develop within the contexts of family
• Peers have become and increasingly important part of adolescence
• Adolescence is a crucial step for figuring out who you are
Slide 19
• When does it begin and when does it end?
• Biological
o When individual has become able to sexually reproduce
• We can use cognitive boundaries
o When certain cognitive abilities emerge
• Interpersonal
o When individual moves from family relationships
• Social
o Looking at a legal perspective
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