PSYCH 3AB3 Midterm: PSYCH 3AB3 Midterm 1 Prep Notes
21 Dec 2014
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Adolescence is the period of time when a child becomes an adult. Many ways of defining the boundaries of adolescence (age, education, sexual) Normative transitions are changes that most adolescents go through at roughly the same point in their development, puberty or entering high school. Idiosyncratic transitions are changes that place at unpredictable points during adolescence. Hiring out was the process where adolescents of small villages left home to work in bigger farms or cities. Growing number of adolescents in towns and cities lead to increase in social problems. Proportions of adolescents in high school grew to 50% by 1911. Adolescence became a separate unique group during this time. Great depression had a positive effect on adolescence increasing education attendance. The baby boom post ww2 increased the proportion of teens in population by. Individuals go through the stages that parallel the evolutionary history of the species. Adolescence as a period of storm and stress .
