PSY310H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ontogeny, Internal Validity, Reductionism
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Typical boundaries that researchers use: early adolescence, ages 10-13, middle adolescence, ages 14-17, late adolescence, ages 18-21, emerging adulthood, early to mid-20s. Plato & aristotle (4th & 5th centuries b. c. : - plato > age 21 = adult capable of advanced reasoning, - aristotle younger age 14 = capable of reasoning, ex. Middle ages: few historical records on adolescence, ex. Rousseau [1712-1778: adolescence a period of stress turbulent time. History of adolescent development (1904 -1970s: stanley hall"s adolescence (1904, nativist (or split) view of change, nature versus nurture, grand theories of development across the lifespan, biological, organismic, learning, sociological, historical/anthropological. Organismic: focus on interplay between the biological changes of adolescence and contextual forces, ex. Jean piaget world: biological developments and intellectual environment, cognitive development is driven by biological changes (new way of thinking of the, new ways of thinking of the world, interplay of biology and context, you become capable of abstract hypothetical thought, all these perspectives are inter related.
