PSY310H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Human Behavior, Behaviorism, Libido
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Adolescence- introduction: adolescence is the time of moving from the immaturity of childhood into the maturity if adulthood preparing for future. It is the period of transition: biological, psychological, social, and economic. Determining the beginning and ending of this period is a matter more of opinion rather than an absolute fact. Depending on how one chooses to define the. Framework for studying adolescence development: frameworks is organized around 3 basic components, fundamental changes of adolescence that is universal in which it occurs to all adolescence. Biological change onset of puberty which may threaten adolescence by sudden changes in physical appearance and change families because of the greater need for privacy in which girls may feel uncomfortable with their father. Cognitive change emergence of more advanced thinking abilities such as memory and problem solving and hypothetical situations and abstract concepts. This ability affects the way adolescence"s think about themselves, relationships and the world around them.
