[ED PSYCH 321] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (17 pages long)

• School: UW-Madison
• Department: Educational Psychology
• Course: ED PSYCH 321
• Professor: Paige Mission

Document Summary

Adolescence: the stage of development that begins with puberty and ends when individuals make the transition into adult roles (from roughly about 10- early 20"s: a period of biological, psychological, social, and economic transitions. Determining the beginning and ending of adolescence is more of an opinion rather than fact (depends on perspective: different perspectives of adolescences: Biological: onset of puberty capability of having children. Emotional: beginning of detachment from parents attainment of separate identity. Cognitive: emergence of more advanced reasoning abilities consolidation of advanced reasoning. Social: beginning of training for adult work, family, and citizen role full attainment of adult status. Interpersonal: beginning of shift interest from parental to peer relations development of capacity for intimacy with peers. Educational: entrance into junior high school completion of formal schooling. Legal: attainment of designated age for adolescence attainment of majority status. Chronological: attainment of designated age of adolescence (e. g. 10) attainment of designated age of adulthood (e. g. 21)