Growing Up

Question 1

what does growth refer to?

Answer 1

• more than physical development
• refers to enduring changes in ppl’s capacities (skills, talents, intelligence) and behaviour that occurs as grow older.
• develop both physically and psychologically.
• Cognitive process, emotional and moral (judging right -> wrong) development undergone simultaneously

Question 2

what is cognitive?

Answer 2

ability to think

mental process of perception, memory and info processing by which indiv acquires info, make plan and solve problems

Question 3

What is a theorist?

Answer 3

a person with idea and has allowed that idea to be extensively tested.
if idea seems reasonable after examined through research and scrutiny by others, then can be said to become a theory.

Question 4

What are ‘social’ theories?

Answer 4

way of generalising knowledge
help understand how and why things happen in society.
reflect social and cultural context in which created at time.
Not all theories you can agree/relate to esp on adolescence

Question 5

What do the social theories do?

Answer 5

generalise common threads of experience from collection of very specific experiences by individual.
may explain why adolescents behave and develop in certain way through results.

Question 6

What do exploring various theories help with?

Answer 6

coming to terms with the body of public knowledge on adolescent development and enable comparisons to world of personal experience for indiv.