PS276 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Acne Vulgaris, Limbic System, Sensation Seeking
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Intro early adolescence: 10-13 middle: 14-17 late: 18-21 emerging adulthood: 18-25. More advanced thinking abilities transition to new roles in society. Challenges: forming identity, developing autonomy, intimacy, sexuality and achievement. Lecture 2 lifespan perspective: development as a process that continues through entire life. Neugarten: 3 sources of influence on development: normative factors- experiences people go through at roughly the same age or developmental, history-graded or cohort factors- unique influences of the time period, non-normative factors- individual, unexpected events. Depression in adolescence: increase in feelings and symptoms early (13-14), mostly in girls, no division for children result from genetic factors that predispose, and environmental highest genetic relation for manic-depressive disorder. Biological changes: adrenarche- maturation of adrenal glands takes place during adolescence epiphysis: closing ends of the bones, terminates growth after growth spurt is finished: most of growth spurt is increase in torso length. Growth order is extremities first, then arms and legs, then torso and shoulder.
