Lecture 16 - Adolescence Flashcards
Neonatal time frame
Brith-27 days
Infancy time frame
28-12 months
Toddler time frame
13 months - 2 years
* up to when they stop toddling around
Early childhood (pre-school) time frame
2-5 years
Middle childhood age range
6-11 years
Early Adolescence timeframe
12-18
Late Adolesnce range
19-21
KNOW: Biological maturity comes before psychosocial maturity
One of the most rapid phases of human development due to puberity =
Adolesence
Eriksons (behaviorism) stage-Age 13-21 = Identity vs role confusion - on test
* Transition from childhood to adulthood
* Becoming more independent
* Begin to look at future in terms of career, relationships, family, housing etc
Piaget-Formal Operation Stage - on test
* 12 years to adulthood
* What is thinking like?
Thikning no longer bound to observable, physical events
Utilizes abstract, logical and formal thinking in order to make sense of environment
Able to approach and resolve problems systematically by formulating hypothesis and methodically testing them out
According to Piaget-not all individuals reach this age of development are capable of formal operational though
brain changes on test
* Which 4 areas of the brain develop the most in adolsence?
* What happens to myelin
* Synaptic pruning also happens at this point. What is that?
Develop the most
1) Frontal cortex development (personality, filter)
2) Corpus Collosum development (connects R/L sides of brain) - still developing in teenage years = hold thoughts on both sides of brain)
3) Limbic system/Amygdala development
Increase in Myelin - Speeds up conduction
* Makes reflexes faster
* Thats why you don’t expect a 7year old to be able to hit 80 mph pitch
Synaptic pruning
* Use it or lose it. If you arent using the area the brain deletes them
In adolesence: morals, values, and self direction
* Rule and limit testing
* Capacity for abstract thought; beginning to understand the potential consequences of future behaviors
* Development of ideals and selecion of role models
* Experimentation w/ sex and drugs
* Importance of peer group and friends (they affect how you’ll act)
Scale of physical development in childre, adolsence and adults
* What sex characteristics does it look at
Tanner scale (its our puberty scale)
defines physical measurements of development base don external and primary and secondary sex characteristics
Not asking specific skills
What are primary sex characteristics?
Characteristics that were there at birth
( enis
Testes
Vagina
Ovaries
What are secondary sex characteristics
What happens in puberty
Female secondary sex characteristics - Test
* Enlargement of brests and erection of nips
* Growth of body hair most prominently underarm and pubic hair
* Greater development of thigh muscles behidn the femur
* Widening of hips
* Lower waist to hip ratio than males
* Changed distribution in weight and fat; more subQ fat and fat deposits, mainly around the buttocks, thighs, and hips