PSY 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Puberty, Anxiety Disorder, Moral Development
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: the years where you morph from a child to an adult. Physical developments of sexual maturity social achievement of independent. Adolescence is a time where one doesn"t care about adulthood yet, a time of rewarding friendships, and a growing sense of life"s possibilities. Myelin forms connections. around axons and speeds neurotransmission, enabling better communication with other parts of the brain: teens find rewards more exciting than adults do. Therefore, they seek thrills and rewards without thinking of the consequences. The adolescent"s goal is to synthesize past, present, and future possibilities into a clearer sense of self: forming an identity, everyone kind of has their own personalities in different areas of their life-home, school, work, online. They talk, dress, and act more like their peers than their parents: everybody now-a-days just network, example : facebook. These types of online communication creates intimate self-disclosure (for better and for worse)
