Child + Youth Chapter 3

• Change in Cognitive Capacities and Identity Formation

  ability to imagine alternative futures depending on different paths. Consider and plan out steps to actualize such futures. identity formation requires abstract thinking skills and reality testing
• Mid-Adolescents and Cognitive Complexity

  possibilities for imagining alternative futures through developed and organized use of formal operational logic
• Identity Vs. Role Confusion

  12-18 years. Eriksons 5th stage. Achievement of identity, physical changes, sexual urges, and strong social pressures
• Why are teenagers embarassed by their parents?

  teens desire more independence and want to separate themselves from parents. Desire privacy by forming individual identities. Brain heightened emotions when thinking about parents being embarrassing
• 3 ways parents embarass their kids

  Posting childhood pics, embrassing comments online, waiting in sight when being picked up
• Peer Vs. Family Relationships

  Peer groups become primary focus of engergy. New relationships with one's family
• Sense of Vocational Direction

  assessment of one's skills, interests, and talents, and channels for expression. Preparing for life after high school
• Mid-Adolescence and Identity

  Consider choices and decisions from one's previous identification. Psychosocial moratorium
• Psychological Issues (lecture)


  true beginnings of Erikson's identity formation process begins
• Biological Processes (Lecture)


  Males mature later than females
• What is Mid-Adolescence marked by?

  a time of adjusting to and consolidating transformations into a revised sense of identity
• Mid-Adolescence

  15-17 years old. directed energy towards peer groups and place in peer groups
• Societal Influences

  identities formed through mutual regulation of society with individual biology and psychology. Societal institutions provide framework
• Psychological Issues

  Identity formation process. Primarily formed through identification with significant others. Psychological moratorium
• Biological Processes

  Beginning of sexual maturation. Increase in weight and muscle strength and endurance