PSYC 2240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Moral Development, Moral Disengagement, Yokohama Rubber Company

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2240
• Professor: Daniel Beliciu

Document Summary

Independence: individual"s capacity to behave on his or her own. Autonomy: emotional components (feeling separate from parents, behavioural components (the growth of independent decision making, cognitive components (developing personal beliefs and values) Today"s teens spend much more time away from direct supervision of adults. But today"s teens also have become more economically reliant on their families. Why: in school longer, part time as opposed to full time job. Early adolescence is a period of growing independence and autonomy. Establishing healthy sense of autonomy is actually a lifelong process. Puberty and the development of autonomy: cognitive, biological, social. Social: changes in social roles and activities as adolescent moves into positions that demand more responsibility and self reliance: having a job, getting driver"s license, choosing to drink, smoke, peer pressure. Emotional autonomy: establishment of more adult-like and less childish close rela- tionships with family and peers. Behavioural autonomy: the capacity to make independent decisions and follow through with them.