CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Imaginary Audience, Generation Gap, Lovers' Lane
15 Sep 2016
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Current developmental theories: infancy: birth to one year, toddler: 1-3 years, preschool: 3-6 years, school age: 6-12 years, adolescence 12-19 years. Aristotle: youth are heated by nature as drunken. Socrates: inclined to contradict parents and tyrannize their teachers . Hall (1904) a period of heightened storm and stress . 1960s and 1970s: attempts to understand the problems as due to raging hormones . The transition from: child status (requires adult monitoring) to adult status (self- responsibility for behavior; sexual maturation; adult roles and responsibilities) Monitor your own behaviours & act like an adult; full adult status. The developmental interval that encompasses the body and brain changes of puberty. Conceptual model of adolescence as a key developmental period for brain/behavior/social context interactions (plasticity) Brain develops when it needs to develop. The father of the study of adolescence. Biosocial theorist: hormonal & physical changes of puberty is driving force of adolescence.
