PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Identity Crisis, Erik Erikson, Life Satisfaction
26 Jul 2018
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Traits are established and set in childhood. Infancy and childhood are in some ways formative. Each of us continues to development not only through infancy and childhood but through adolescence and adulthood. The period of transition between childhood and adulthood (13-20) Years in period differs from person to person and from generation and generation. Adolescence begins with biological event, when we"re in puberty and culminates with social event, independence from parents. How societies conceptualize adolescence has varied with changing economic and political conditions. Young people were needed for factory work or military service. Young people were seen as competent and capable and adolescence was seen to end at around 16. Work was harder to find, adolescence ended later. When boys reach puberty, boys are beaten with clubs, stripped and shaven, exposed to cold weather, forced to eat unsavory foods, circumcised and secluded from others for 3 months.
