PSY-2210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bulimia Nervosa, Performance-Enhancing Substance, Eating Disorder
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Psy 2210 chpt 11 physical and cognitive development in adolescence. Conceptions of adolescence: the biological perspective. G. stanley hall (1904) described adolescence as storm-and-stress, a period so turbulent that it resembled the area in which humans evolved from savages to civilized beings. Ig(cid:373)u(cid:374)d f(cid:396)eud"s ps(cid:455)(cid:272)hoso(cid:272)ial theo(cid:396)(cid:455) suggests se(cid:454)ual i(cid:373)pulses (cid:396)ea(cid:449)ake(cid:374), triggering psychological conflict and volatile behavior. As young people find intimate partners, inner forces gradually achieve new harmony. They fulfill their biological destiny; reproduction and survival of the species: the social perspective. Problems; eating disorders, depression, suicide, and lawbreaking occur more often. Serious psychological disturbances rise 15-20: only about 6% in adulthood. Margaret mead- afte(cid:396) (cid:448)isiti(cid:374)g a(cid:373)oa, (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)luded that (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause of (cid:272)ultu(cid:396)e"s (cid:396)ela(cid:454)ed so(cid:272)ial (cid:396)elatio(cid:374)ships a(cid:374)d ope(cid:374)(cid:374)ess to(cid:449)a(cid:396)d se(cid:454)ualit(cid:455), adoles(cid:272)e(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:862)is perhaps the pleasantest time the samoans will ever kno(cid:449). (cid:863) Social environment is entirely responsible for the range of teenage experiences, from erratic and agitated, to calm and stress-free: a balanced point of view.
