PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Secondary Sex Characteristic, Egocentrism, Imaginary Audience
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Anxious/ambivalent (10%): strong reaction to mother"s absence, mixed emotions at reunion. Disorganized/disoriented (15%): mixture of avoidant and resistant behaviours. Puberty - development of primary and secondary sex characteristics. Primary sex characteristics changes in body structure that occur during puberty that have to do specifically with the reproductive system. Secondary sex characteristics changes that occur during puberty and that differ according to gender, but aren"t directly related to sex. Formal operational period (piaget): can think about ideas conceptually without needing concrete referents. Formal operational period adolescent egocentrism imaginary audience personal fable. Identity and role confusion (erikson): adolescents need to discover their own identity (table 4. 8)
