PS276 Lecture Notes - Libido, Operant Conditioning, Homeschooling
Document Summary
A multidisciplinary approach to adolescence: answering questions about adolescent psychological development requires an understanding of how they develop physically. It makes more sense to think of development during adolescence as a series of transitions from immaturity to maturity. Some writers have suggested that a new phase of life, called emerging adulthood, now characterizes the early and mid-20s. Recap: the three features of adolescence that make the period unique are called the. The contexts of adolescence: although adolescents experience all three fundamental changes, the effects of these changes are not uniform, e. g. ) Family or peer group: meso system is formed by two or more immediate settings, e. g. ) As in the home school linkage: exo system does not directly contain the developing person but affects the setting in which the person lives, e. g. ) Parent"s workplace: macro system is the outermost layer, containing forces such as history and culture, e. g. ) Country or era in which the adolescent lives.
