PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes -Lawrence Kohlberg, Frontal Lobe, Jean Piaget

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

Lifespan perspective emerged psychologists began to look at how maturation and experience shape us not only in infancy and childhood, but in adolescence and beyond. Adolescence the years spent morphing from child to adult-starts with the physical beginnings of sexual maturity and ends with the social achievement of independent adult status. Teen years in industrialized countries blissful time when childhood is coming to an end, and out of that vast circle, a path takes shape. Tension between biological maturity and social dependence creates a period of storm and stress social approval was imperative, their sense of direction in life was in flux, and feeling of alienation from parents was deepest. It is also a time of vitality without the cares of adulthood, a time of rewarding friendships, of heightened idealism and growing sense of life"s exciting possibilities. Adolescent begins with puberty, the time when we mature sexually.