Unit 5: DevelopmentChapter 11: Adolescence

Warm Up 11/19

• Have you changed since middle school? How?

Physical Development

• transitioning from childhood to adulthood

Physical Development

• growth spurt - rapid growtho between 8-12”o girls earlier than boyso may result in feeling gawky for a while

Physical Development

• Pubertyo physical changes that result in the

ability to reproduceo primary & secondary sex

characteristics

Physical Development

• Pubertyo changes in hormone levels

boys - deeper voices, facial hair, more muscle tissue

girls - menstruation

• Maturation rateso are there social differences?

Social Development

• Parentso more independence

safely still need parents for important things

o maintain emotional attachment

Vocabulary Chapter 11• adolescent growth

spurt• puberty

• primary sex characteristics

• secondary sex characteristics

• anorexia nervosa• bulimia nervosa• juvenile delinquency• status offenses

• menarche• cliques• crowds• identity crisis• identity status• identity moratorium• identity foreclosure• identity achievement• identity diffusion• identity achievement

Warm up 02/11

1.In which of Piaget’s cognitive stages does a child exhibit egocentrism?

2.Which psychologist developed moral stages of development?

3.Which inborn reflex causes a child to turn its face toward a source of food?

Social Development

• Peerso friendship

several hours a day with friends “besties” - loyalty is important similar outlook on life

o cliques & crowds

Social Development

• Peerso peer pressureo dating

Identity Formation

• Identity Developmento Erikson - committing to role or

occupation no identity...lost forever?

o try different values, beliefs, roles, etc.o identity crisis - examine values &

determine which ones fit best

• Identity Statuso Marcia - adolescence decisions will

determine the life you have?

• Identity Statuso moratorium - delaying making decisionso foreclosure - making decisions that

leave out other paths o diffusion - not committed to a set of

personal beliefso achievement - committed yourself to a

role in life

• Gender o Erikson - theory applies to mostly boys

interpersonal relationships important in identity

women connected to role of wife & mothero today more likely to approach identity

formation like men

• Ethnicityo two sets of cultural values

reconcile the differences

o prejudice & discriminationo father & mother from different cultural

background have to figure out where they stand

o http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/10/changing-faces/schoeller-photography

Write a letter to yourself….It can be whatever you want

things to consider

musical tastes

television

goals

family planning

Self-address the back ...I will mail it to you in ~10 years.

Warm up 02/18

• Do you think it is difficult to be a teenager?

• Why?

Challenges of Adolescence

• Eating Disorderso Bulimia nervosa

binge eating & vomiting mostly female also can involve fasting, strict dieting,

vigorous exercise

• Eating Disorderso anorexia nervosa

self-starvation & distorted body image men can have it too but less frequently

o Cultural pressureo treatment

counseling rehab like programs

• Substance Abuseo http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/high-school-youth-trends

o coping with stress?o addiction at an early ageo drug prevention - DARE

http://montana.methproject.org/index.php

• Sexualityo http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/sexualbehaviors/

o several risks with teenage motherhood to health of both mom and baby

• Juvenile Delinquencyo status offenses - less serious offenses

that are only prohibited to minors truancy, drinking, smoking, running away

from home

Warm up 11/20

1.What type of conditioning is operated on a schedule of rewards & punishments?

2.Who experimented with a Bobo doll?

3.What is eidetic memory?