PSYC 3509- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 25 pages long!)

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3509
• Professor: Anne Bowker

Document Summary

Increased intimacy with peers: everything with how to cope with puberty, how to cope with standing out and looking difference, socially, physically, trying to figure out who you are self-consciousness. Period of transition: biological, cognitive, social. Mid-adolescence (15-18 years) late adolescence (18-21) (emerging adulthood) Can do this but can"t do this: influence of early theories, data taken from adolescents in treatment. Idea of storm and stress is not totally that out of control: generation gap, notion that parents and kids are not able to understand the generation gap, conflict, ideas are different, all adolescents are the same. Child labour laws: the industrial revolution, 40% factory workers were children, cheap labour. 1900-19930: fewer decisions to make; leave home, establish economic independence, get married. 1930-1950: more serious economic, political concerns, ww2, not as much work, not as much food. 1950"s: baby boomers, silent generation, post war, peace increased media, tv.