ADOLESCENCE

1. PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ADOLESCENCE

1.1. IDENTITY

1.1.1. This is where adolescence find out who they are

1.2. AUTONOMY

1.2.1. adapts to their parts

1.3. ACHIEVEMENT

1.3.1. concerns the development of motives, capabilities, interest and behavior that has to do with their performance

1.4. INTIMACY

1.4.1. Attached theory dominates the field of intimacy relationships in adolescence. Most are healthier

1.5. SEXUALITY

1.5.1. physical and hormonal changes of puberty increase sex drive and change appearance.

1.5.2. cognitive changes of adolescence result in increased capacity to understand sexual feelings

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4. SOCIOCULTURAL TRANSITIONS

5. Individual differences in intelligence in adolescence

5.1. sex differences in intellectual abilities have largely disappeared are are limited to differences on spatial ability

5.2. IQ test measures the intelligence that is predictive of success in schools

6. CONTEXTS OF ADOLESCENCE

6.1. PEERS

6.1.1. people who surround them self with, peer pressure starts to become a real thing

6.2. SCHOOLS

6.2.1. where they attend and who they hang out with.

6.3. WORK, LESURE, AND THE MEDIA

7. TRANSITIONS OF ADOLESCENCE

7.1. COGNITIVE TRANSITIONS (CHAPTER 2)

7.2. BIOLOGICAL TRANSITIONS

7.2.1. the most dramatic changes of puberty that involves sexuality

8. a type of logical reasonings that draws logically necessary conclusions from a general set of premises.

9. Chapter 3-social transitions

9.1. adolescence is more of a social invention than a biological or cognitive

9.2. culture has a big impact on social transitions

9.3. traditional societies, adolescent is marked by formal initiation