EPSY 256 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Emerging Adulthood And Early Adulthood
9 May 2020
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What kind of life will i have in 20 years? Enhanced cognitive capacity in adolescence means that adolescents change in their self-conceptions, self-esteem, and their emotional understanding. In addition, it further means that adolescents change in their identities. The capacity for abstract thought means an adolescent can distinguish between: The size discrepancy between actual self and ideal self is related to depressed mood. Awareness of actual and possible selves provides some adolescents with a motivation to strive toward their ideal self and avoid becoming the feared self. The adequate development of ideal self and feared self. B. more complex, contradictory: early adolescence to middle adolescence, contradictions indicate that adolescents recognize that their feelings and their behavior can vary from day to day and from situation to situation (harter, 1990,2015, false self. The formal operational ability to perceive multiple aspects of a situation or idea means that self-understanding becomes more complex in adolescence. Figure 6. 1 self-esteem rises from adolescence to emerging adulthood.
