TB- Intro Flashcards
adolescence
The stage of development that begins with puberty and ends when individuals make the transition into adult roles, roughly speaking, from about age 10 until the early 20s.
early adolescence
The period spanning roughly ages 10 to 13, corresponding roughly to the junior high or middle school years.
middle adolescence
The period spanning roughly ages 14 to 17, corresponding to the high school years.
late adolescence
The period spanning roughly ages 18 to 21, corresponding approximately to the college years.
emerging adulthood
The period spanning roughly ages 18 to 25, during which individuals make the transition from adolescence to adulthood. Little evedence that this is a universal stae or that the majority of people in there mid 20s are in some sory of psychological or social limbo.
puberty
The biological changes of adolescence.
3 groups of American youth
early starters (finish scool, enter work, live on own, start family before 22) Employment foccoused (finish school, enter work, live on oen before 21, not marry till later) education foccoused (not expect to finsih school till after 22, not start family intilll 24 or 23)
model for studdying adolesnce
3 components
1 fundmental changes of ad
2 context of ad
3 psychosocial devolopment of ad
three fundmental changes of addolesents
1 onset of puberty
2 emergence of more advanced thinking abilite (think about hypotheticals and abstract concepts)
3 transitioninto new roles in society (includes rite of passage)
Universal - all in every sociert go through them
Context of adolesents
fundemental chneges universal, effects vaired because addolesnts is shaped by the enviorment in which changes take place
rite of passage
A ceremony or ritual marking an individual’s transition from one social status to another, especially marking the young person’s transition to adulthood
ecological perspective on human development
A perspective on development that emphasizes the broader context in which development occurs.
4 main contects in which young people spend time
familes peer groups, schools, and work&lesure settings
major psychosoal devolopments of adolesents
(are pyychosocial) identiy, atonomy, intimacy, sexuality, and achivement (& psychosocial problems)
identity
(1) discovering and understanding who we are as individuals - identity