CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: American Psychologist
5 Mar 2014
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The term adolescence was not a popular term until the late 19th/early 20th century. Stanley g. hall was the man who made this term popular suggested that adolescence is a universal stage. He was sort of part of the rise of psychology and had a real interest in populations and people. He also looked at ways to organize and categorize people. And a stage of trouble and problems (a time that would have to be worried about) Embedded in the individual what was going on between each individual. Especially concerned with sex and sexuality and that it was important to contain/control adolescent sexuality = appropriate gender development. The idea of teenagers became more and more popular just after world war ii. Trouble: post world war 2 (was a time of responsibility) (see moral hygiene" films, e. g. how to be popular http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=2yasuhmlk40) These types of people were also associated this age group with trouble.
