Development Through the Lifespan

Chapter 4

Developmental Theories - Piaget

• Jean Piaget

• Deals with

• Basic Concepts –– – Assimilation

Developmental Theories - Piaget

• Sensorimotor– – Stranger Anxiety

• – Pretend Play–

Developmental Theories - Piaget

• Concrete Operational– Logic–

• Formal Operations– –

Developmental Theories – Bowlby / Freud

• Attachment theory

• Attachment measured by the

Developmental Theories – Bowlby / Freud

• Attachment theory– Secure– – Anxious Avoidant–

Developmental Theories - Harlowe

• Studied of attachment

• Studies

• Human Correlates

Developmental Theories – Parenting Styles

• Authoritarian

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• Goldilocks Parenting?

Developmental Theories - Ericson

• Erik Ericson

• Focuses on throughout the lifespan

Developmental Theories - Kohlberg

• Lawrence Kohlberg

• Focuses on

Developmental Theories - Kohlberg

• Stage

• Stage

• Stage

DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION : ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT

Biological, Social and Cognitive Development

Physical Changes in Adolescence

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• Physical Maturation – Gender Differences– Male– Female

Physical Changes in Adolescence

• Endocrine System & Puberty

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• Hormone /

Physical Changes in Adolescence

• Timing and Variation in Puberty

• Diet

Physical Changes in Adolescence

• Early / Late Onset of Puberty

• The Adolescent Brain

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Notes:

Adolescent Sexuality

• Adolescent sexual identity

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• Body Image

Eating Disorder

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• Bulimia Nervosa

• Bigorexia ( )

Notes:

The Adolescent Mind

• Adolescent egocentrism– –

• Information processing

Adolescent Cognition

• Piaget (ages 11 on)– Formal Operations

• Thought

• Thought

Adolescent Cognition

• Evaluating Piaget’s Theory

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Adolescent Cognition

• Intuitive / Emotional Thought

School and the Adolescent

• Transition from Elementary to Junior High/Middle School

Identity – Who Am I?• Self is made up of different identities– Vocational/Career - – – Religious– Relationship– – – Cultural/Heritage– Interests–

Erikson’s Fifth Stage: Identity v Role Confusion

• Identity v Role Confusion– Age 12 – 20

Identity

• Search for Identity does not start at adolescence

Identity

• Development of Identity

• pattern

Identity - Influences

• Family

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Identity – Four Areas

• Religious

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• Political / Ethnic

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Peers

• Friendships

• Peer Pressure

• Peer Selection

Notes:

Sexuality

• Development of Relationships

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• Homosexuality

Dating and Romantic Relationships

• Adolescent Heterosexual Relationships

• Adolescent Homosexual Relationships

Learning About Sex

• Peers

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• School

Adolescent Morals

• Postconventional (some older children/adults –rare-)– Become members of the society, have roles to full

fill

• Heinz – He did right by stealing the drug

Adolescent Morals

• Why?– No husband should sit back and watch their wife

die.– It’d be OK because the judge would look at the fact

that he was trying to save his wife– No jury would convict him of trying to do the right

thing

Moral Development

• Critics of Kohlberg– Moral thought/behavior– – Families and moral development–

Problems in Adolescence

• Juvenile Delinquency

• Depression & Suicide– Self Harm–

Culture and Adolescence

• Rites of Passage