PSYC 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Latency Stage, Genital Stage, Credentialism And Educational Inflation
14 Apr 2013
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Main points: adolescence, teenager and youth are distinct yet overlapping concepts, adolescence and teenagehood are often pathologized, there are different perspectives explaining adolescence, teenager and youth, socio-cultural theorists tend to see these as context-specific, social concepts. Rise in psi" discipline: stanley g. hall. Teenagehood: post world war 2, link to consumption. The process of adolescence: the notion of becoming an adult. Why did i rebel : traditional developmental psychology proposes an answer for this question. Freud - id vs ego: coming into adolescence a child is in the latency stage id and ego are balanced , adolescents is the genital stage. An internal struggle between id and super ego: so the process of adolescence is one of great internal stress. Breaking away from identity of parents: truly a time of becoming . Parental role is supporting: if becoming isn"t support, difficulties may arise. Piaget: also a time of becoming , adolescence is a time to develop abstract thinking skills.
