PSYC 4070 Chapter : Chapter 11 WITHOUT ABBREVIATIONS
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Chapter 11: physical and cognitive development in adolescence. Adolescence: developmental stage between childhood and adulthood: generally starts just before teen years / ends just after them, characterized by. Is transitional stage no longer children but no adults: time of bodily changes, various temptations (drugs, alcohol, sex, expanding/constricting social networks, cognitive changes, emotionality. Adolescence time of mood swings mood: higher hormone level associated with, feelings of anger and annoyance in boys (aggression, anger and depression in girls. Is a plus early maturing boys tend to be more successful at athletics: are more popular, more positive self-concept. Individuals refused to eat: deny behavior/appearance are out of ordinary, ex. Brain development: prefrontal cortex thought, example: thinking in the abstract, form hypothesis to solve problems, start with hypothesis, deduce explanations for particular outcome, test the hypothesis operational stage, use of formal operations: Egocentrism in thinking: adolescents" self-absorption: adolescence egocentrism once. 25% by parents / authority figures: before, they blindly accept / now they question.
