PSY310H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Peer Group, Delayed Gratification, Decision-Making
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Working during adolescence has positive effect on school performance and decreases engagement in problem behavior. Explain by references empirical finding and explanations for those findings. Describe the improvement in decision making abilities that occur between 7th and 12th grade. Describe one explanation for why these improvements are observed: behavioral autonomy is the capacity to make independent decisions and also follow through on them. Decision making improvement: older adolescents show more sophisticated abilities, awareness of risks, considering future consequences, seeking out help and support when needed, recognize vested interests. Process of individuation: process where adolescents develop autonomy and being an independent person, individuals gradually see self as independent functioning individual, process begins during infancy and continues though life span, adolescents will begin to de-idealize their parents. Realize they are not all knowing, perfect beings: begin to see parents as people, not just parents.
