Adolescence Life Span Flashcards
1
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Theorist’s of Adolescence
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- G. Stanley Hall
- Daniel Offer
2
Q
G. Stanley Hall View
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- storm and stress view
3
Q
Daniel Offer View
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- happy most of the time
- have self-control
- value work and school
- can cope with life
- positive feeling toward their family
4
Q
Changes in Adolescence
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- puberty and body image concerns
- thinking more abstractly and logically
- More responsibility and autonomy
- Moving from small homogenous
classrooms into impersonal large
heterogeneous classrooms - More stress on achievement
- Top dog phenomenon/dominance
hierarchy
5
Q
Puberty
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- The period where a young person becomes capable of sexual reproduction
- Period of rapid physical maturation involving hormonal and bodily changes that occur primarily during early adolescents
6
Q
Health and Safety Concerns
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- Unhealthy diet/Energy drinks
- Eating disorders
- Depression/Suicide/Anxiety
- Tobacco use/Vaping/E-cigarettes
- Alcohol/Drug use
- Sexual activity leading to pregnancy or Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
- Unintentional injury or violence
7
Q
How to Ensure Health and Safety
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- honest programs about difficult topics (programs providing info, encourage abstinence, promote condom use, encourage fewer partners, teach sexual communication skills)
- Increase health-enhancing behaviours and reduce health-compromising behaviours
8
Q
Piaget Stages
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- Sensorimotor stage
- Pre operational stage
- Concrete operational stage
- Formal operational stage
9
Q
Sensorimotor stage
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- 0 - 2
- child begins to interact with world
10
Q
Pre-operaitonal stage
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- 2 - 6 or 7
- child begins to represent the world symbolically
11
Q
Concrete operational stage
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- 7 - 11 or 12
- child learns rules such as conversation
12
Q
Formal operational stage
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- 12 - adulthood
- Thinking shifts from the real to the possible
- Ability to think about things never experienced
- Generate ideas about things that never happened
- Make predictions about hypothetical or future events
- Think about thinking
13
Q
Adolescent Egocentrism
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- heightened self-consciousness of adolescents that contributes to their social thinking
(imaginary audience, personal fable)
14
Q
examples of adolescent egocentrism
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- “I want to skip school
because I am having
a bad hair day and
everyone with notice
and laugh at me” - “I can drive at
150km/hour, no
one can handle
high speeds like
me” - “Nobody understands
me, especially not my
parents or teachers”
15
Q
Understanding Others
A
- adolescents develop better understanding of others by attaching beliefs and attitudes to important life issues through…
- promotion of community service/volunteer work
- engaging in extracurricular activities
