Chap. 1 Flashcards
(37 cards)
3 fundamental changes of adolescence
- biological
- cognitive
- social
social/place
4 main context in which adolescents spend their time
Bronfenbrenner’s ecological perspective
- families
- peer
- school
- work/leisure
Psyo development
4 stages they will face
- identity
- intimacy/sex
- challenges
- +’ve prospects and opportunities
Theoretical perspectives on adolescence
5 fields of study
- biosocial
- oranismic
- learning
- socialogical
- historical/anothro
Organismic thoerists
also known as psychoanalytical theorists
- freud - sex conflicts
- erikson - internal conflict with stages
- paiget - development through cognition and thinking
Social and anthropological theories
what it is and the psychologist
- focused on adolescents as a group and thier role in society and culture
- Benedict: continuous and discontinuous (think laws and nature of everything)
Historical and anthropological perspective
they are inventions and a product of social structures
anthro = culturally-defined
stress of adolescence
somewhat stressful, but not for all teenagers.
- body change
- social change
adolescence problems v. positivity
+‘ve = norm
media and research says otherwise
developmental tasks in early ado
11-14
- adapting to rapid and drastic body/mental change
- new social roles
- accepting and learning to use physique
developmental tasks in late ado
19-22
- preping for marriage/fam life
- prep for career
- acquire a mature set of values
developmental tasks in middle ado.
15-18
- achieving psyo independence
- develop the ability to have close friends
- have meaningful and sexual relationships
modern teens/peers
who influences them
they are influenced by peers and in (almost) constant contect with them
teens and sexual activity
recent years, it has leveled off and will use more contraceptives
basic survival skills
needs
5 of them
- caring relationship with an adult
- soical support system
- social competence/life skills
- prep to become an active member
- belief that they have a good future
modern survial skills
4 of them
- tech skills to participate in society
- motivation to keep learning
- values that aling with society
- the ability to live in unpredictable societies
G. Stanley Hall
study started and what he studied
- 1900’s
- storm and stress
- recapitulationism
- evolutionary psyo
recaoitulationism
the stages of human development (birth to death) replicate the innate stages of humans
Benedict’s continous v. discontinuous societies
con - gradual and peaceful
dis - abrupt
frued/erkison
Psychoanalytic
importance on the libido and the psyo stages that are connected to personal and sexual development
libido = responsible for basic needs
jean piaget
Cog theories
looks at the changes in an ado’s thinking ability
b.f. skinner
learning/conditioning theory
behaviourists
external consequences will chnage the way a behvaiour is repeated
learn by watching others
social and anthro theories
compare and contrast of ados across culture
bronfernbreener
Ecological theory
forces interact with each other, they way they interact will affect the way it affects the ado
