EPSY 256 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Collectivism, Anna Freud, Individualism
9 Mar 2020
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Contributing factors: legislation prohibiting child labor, requirements for children to attend secondary schooling, adolescence as a distinct field of scholarship. Marked the beginning of a systematic exploration of adolescence as a unique period of the lifespan. Adolescence is a period of storm and stress: Theory that adolescence is a biologically based period of inevitable mood disruptions, conflict with parents and antisocial behavior. To be normal during the adolescent period is by itself abnormal (p. 275) Hall and freud have similar views that the source of the storm and stress is purely biological. In what ways does mead challenge hall"s notion of. Challenged the notion of biological determination of adolescence and human development. Took into account the role of culture challenging universality. Signaled a paradigmatic shift placing the person in context. Puberty refers to the universal biological changes that occur in reaching physical and sexual maturity. Adolescence is more than the events or process of puberty.
