PSY312H5 Lecture 10: Lecture 10 Adolescent Development.docx
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Start of the teens years are a biological changepuberty. Occurs earlier than it use to 100 years ago. Marker for the onset of adolescencechangechildhood to adulthood. Puberty (physiological and hormonal changes that are occurring- brain nerves) Brain is not fully developed yet (until 23) When you are a child you see your parents as perfect but as you get older you do not. They do not see the world the same way you do. Forms the cognitive perspectives teens have of the world. Main source of information is not parents anymore, its peers. Forming own cognitive structures about abstract ideas leads to conflict. Pendulum problem - can"t learn this until adolescence (weight, length or how far you pull it backwhich effects how far it goesall three) When someone tells you something, you want the facts so you can figure it out for yourself. During childhood you are relying on trial and errordoesn"t require any logic.
