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chapter 9: physical and cognitive development
in adolescence
adolescence:
•to grow to maturity, to grow to adulthood
•adolescence is the second decade of the lifespan with challenges
and changes (physical/biological, emotional, cognitive, and
social changes)
•a time of evaluation, decision making, and beginning to find
ones place in the world
•biological changes:
- growth spurt and hormonal changes
- sexual maturity and puberty
- brain maturation and altered sleep patterns
•cognitive changes:
- increased abstract idealistic and logical thinking
- increased egocentric perceptions
- more responsibility given by parents
•socioemotional changes
- increased independence and time spent with peers; more
conflict with parents
- more mood swings, sexual maturation, and romantic
relationships; and more intimacy and self-disclosure
- larger, more impersonal schools; and more pressure to
achieve achieve academically
conceptualizations of adolescence:
•biological conception
- g stanley hall - perceived as a time of "storm and stress"
- s freud - awakened instinctual drives during the genital
stage
- anna freud - a biologically-based 'universal developmental
disturbance'
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