PSY 3105 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Canada, Adolescence, Puberty
20 Nov 2018
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Normative transition: happen to most people at the same age i. e biological puberty, cultural changes. Idiosyncratic transition: happen to an individual at unpredictable times i. e teen moves to diff country. Phases and tasks: early adolescence (11-14), middle (15-18), late (19-22; emerging adulthood, developmental tasks associated to each phase skills, attitudes, social functions from culture. Adolescence in earlier times viewed as a distinct group for a long time: adolescents treated differently in different eras, citizenship at adulthood in ancient greece wear certain clothing at a certain age. Inventionism age of adolescence is b/c of these factors. Evolutionary explanations of adolescence role of reproductive fitness: applied to se(cid:454)ual (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour (cid:894)(cid:272)o(cid:373)pare (cid:373)e(cid:374) a(cid:374)d (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374), ha(cid:448)e(cid:374)"t defi(cid:374)ed to adoles(cid:272)e(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:895, need scarce resources for natural selection to occur. Freud and psychosexual stages re-emergence in adolescence of childhood conflicts: need for emotional separation from the family; genital stage causes anxiety. Skinner operant conditioning behaviour changed by its consequences; people"s (cid:373)oti(cid:448)atio(cid:374)
