HDE 100B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Prosocial Behavior, Premarital Sex, Moral Disengagement

• School: UC-Davis
• Department: Human Development
• Course: HDE 100B
• Professor: Shebloski Barbara

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Emotional components (feeling separate from parents: behavioral components (independent decision making, cognitive components (developing personal beliefs and values) Early adolescence is a period of growing independence and autonomy. Establishing a healthy sense of autonomy is actually a lifelong process. Emotional autonomy: the development of emotional autonomy, emotional autonomy gaining emotional independence in relationships with others, especially parents; the establishment of more adult-like and less childish close relationships with family members and peers. Puberty and the development of autonomy: detachment adolescents are driven to separate emotionally from parents and turn to peers. Relationships with parents are severed: views conflict as a normal part of development in adolescence, detachment was viewed by freud as a normal, healthy part of emotional development during adolescence, research on detachment. Peter blos (1967), a neo-analytic theorist proposed to look at development of emotional autonomy in the terms of an adolescent"s sense of individuation.