Ch 11

- when does this end and adulthood begin

• - Father of adolescent psychology
• - "Storm and Stress"
• - moody and untrustworthy

• - psychological aspect
• - ego/id
• - increase in defense expansion

- increase libido

• - psychosocial
• - identity crisis is the stage that adolescence go though
• - saw as a time to experiment with a variety of many identity's - main task of adolescence is to maintain an identity
• - choose and repudiate values

• - bio psychosocial
• - bio: genital maturation, pubertal timing, physical growth
• - psycho: detachment - autonomy, sexuality, intimacy, achievement motivation and behavior
• - social: gender identity, ethnicity - race, social class
• - shift from dependence to interdependence
• - peers support your behavior - move around to find this
• - intimacy: mature emotionally and cognitively to have that with another person - begins (learned) with same sex friends then moves on to members of the opposite sex - them move into intimate relationship
• - integration intimacy and sex is a goal of adolescence

• - is not a time of turmoil for most teenagers
• - Communication is very important
• - Time of transition
• - they need good information

• - bio: best predictor for onset of puberty is increase in hormones
• Puberty - relatively abrupt and qualitatively different set of physical changes that normally occur at the beginning of the teen years
• menarche (first period)(pg. 292): 200 years ago at age 17, 100 years ago 15, now 12.5 years --->
• secular age (trend)(pg. 303): phenomenon (in recent centuries) of adolescents entering puberty sooner and growing taller and heavier
• - psycho:
• - social:

reversion to self-centered thinking patterns of childhood that sometimes occurs in the teen years

• adolescents' perception that the world is constantly scrutinizing their behavior and physical appearance.
• - Formal Operations: (Piaget's) abstract thought

• adolescents' tendency to think of themselves in heroic or mythical terms
• - medially constructive autobiography, the "its not gonna happen to me"
• - risk taking

• - this may explain why teens are so emotional
• Amygdala: larger role in teen emotions
• Prefrontal lobe: larger role in adult emotions
• Parietal and Frontal lobe: growth spurts

• Piaget
• - reason and logic
• - concrete -> abstract (consequences of actions)

• - 3 possible stressers:
• 1. Academic achievement
• 2. Pressure to Date
• 3. Pressure to smoke, drink, and do drugs