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Adolescent Psychology
Chapters 1-3
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
02/06/2006

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G. STANELY HALL
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Storm and Stress, a concept that states that adolescense is a turbulent time charged with conflic nad mood swings.
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MARGARET MEAD
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Thought that adolescence is sociocultural, or to say affected by the culture a child is in.
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INVENTIONIST VIEW
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The view that adolescence is a sociocultural creation.
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FURTHER ADVANCES WITH ADOLESCENT RESEARCH:
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-child labor laws
-importance of school
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STEREOTYPE
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Generalization that reflects our impressions and beliefs about a broad group of people.
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ADOLESCENT GENERALIZATION GAP
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generalizations that are based on information about a limited, often highly visual group of adolescents.
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CONTEXTS ARE AFFECTED BY:
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history, economy, social and cultural factors.
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SOCIAL POLICY
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A national government's cpurse of action designed to influence the welfare of its citizens.
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GENERATIONAL INEQUITY
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older adults recieve inequitably large allocations of resources, such as social security and medicare benefits.
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BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES
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Physical changes in an individual's body
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PERIODS OF DEVELOPMENT: COGNITIVE PROCESS
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Changes in an individual's thinking and intelligence
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SOCIOEMOTIONAL PROCESSES
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Changes in an individual's relationships with other people, emotions, personality, and social contexts
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PRENATAL PERIOD
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The time from conception to birth
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INFANCY
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Birth to 18-24 months
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EARLY CHILDHOOD
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End of infancy to 5 or 6 years, "preschool" years
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MIDDLE AND LATE CHILDHOOD
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The developmental period from 6-11
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EARLY ADOLESCENCE
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The Developmental period that corrosponds roughly to the middle school or junior high; is related to biological changes, puberty
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LATE ADOLESCENCE
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Latter half of the second decade of life, more pronounced emotional development
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YOUTH
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Transitional period between adolescence and adulthood, which is a time of economic and personal temporariness.
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NATURE-NURTUE
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Biological vs Sociological influences
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CONTINUITY VS DISCONTINUITY
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growing and developing into something new, or a sudden change.
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EARLY-LATER EXPERIENCE
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The affect of an early experience vs one later in life
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PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORIES
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Describe development as primarily unconscious and heavily colored by emotion
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SIGMUND FREUD
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Specialized in neurology, developed psychoanalytic theory.
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FREUD'S PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES
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Oral Stage
Anal Stage
Phallic Stage
Latency Stage
Genital Stage
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ID, EGO, SUPER-EGO
Definition
ID: instincts
EGO: Desires
SUPER-EGO: Morality
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ERIK ERIKSON
Definition
Theory Includes 8 Stages of human development
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COGNITIVE THEORIES: PIAGET'S DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY
Definition
indivituals actively construct their understanding of the world as they go through four stages of development. How our brain organizes and adapts to the world.
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JEAN PIAGET'S FOUR STAGES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT.
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Sensorimotor: sensory experience and physical actions
Preoperational: representing the world with images and words (symbology)
Concrete Operational: reason without concrete proof and classification skills
Formal Operational Stage: abstract logical reasoning.
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