PSYCH 3AB3- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 30 pages long!)

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Two sorts of transitions two types of transitions: normative ex. Puberty occurs relatively at the same time for all people, and occurs in. Some adolescents will experience parental divorce, and some won"t but theres nothing about these changes that will predict when it occurs. Reaching the end of this phase, means reaching adult like behavior. In developed countries nearly 100% of children will attend secondary school and nearly all of those students will finish. Psychoanalytic theories: freuds theory starts in early childhood but extends to adolescence, adolesnce is started by onset of genitial stages of psychosexual stages, they r more prominent in this stage bc sexual maturation gives the adolcent the. An individuals skin colour is a genetic trait, but the way the community treats others of that skin color is part of the socially constructed system that the individuals is apart of.