Pdev Unit 3

• Adolescence


  The stage known for rapid and sudden changes
• Cognitive development


  Abstract thinking, or the ability to imagine something one has not experienced yet
• Developmental tasks


  Sets of expectations, may it be physical, cognitive, and socioemotional expectations, that would make an individual happy and satisfied when these are fulfilled
• Imaginary audience


  An adolescent feels like he is being watched all the time and is sensitive to criticism of others
• Values


  Having a set of personal principles to guide behavior
• Abstract thinking


  The ability to imagine something one has not experienced yet, is part of an adolescent's cognitive development
• Expectations


  Sets of physical, cognitive, and socioemotional expectations that would make an individual happy and satisfied when these are fulfilled
• Imaginary audience


  The sensitivity an adolescent feels about being watched and criticized by others
• Personal values


  In the adolescent stage, these will serve as a guiding compass when making crucial decisions later on in life
• An adolescent's risk-taking behavior lessens in late adolescence
• Establishing a strong self-identity helps an adolescent
• It is important for an adolescent to accept and care for one's body
• Fulfillment of this task


  Allows you to become productive and responsible citizens and will also encourage you to learn how to contribute or give back to others
• Be knowledgeable about family life and home management matters
• Whatever path you will take as an adult when it comes to your preferences and choices in building a family


  This is the stage where you must develop an attitude or obtain knowledge about relationships, marriage, parenting, and managing the home
• Being able to fulfill this task


  Will prepare you for the demands of adulthood later on
• Fulfilling this task


  Will also allow you to establish a strong sense of self because you know what you want in choosing a partner, what expectations to set for your family in the future, and how your choices will affect families and communities around you
• Developmental tasks


  • Developmental tasks with you
  • Interpersonal developmental tasks
• Developmental tasks


  Expected responsibilities to be fulfilled by an adolescent to be able to prepare you for adulthood
• Interpersonal developmental tasks


  Tasks that prepare you for your interactions with other adults, and also in establishing your place in your community as a responsible adult
• They encourage each other to pursue their dreams are free to be themselves around each other
• A study at the University of Virginia has shown that friends trigger our ability to put ourselves in the shoes of another person – or what we know as empathy
• The experiment shows brain scans of individuals who were threatened to small electric shocks
• These same individuals were also threatened that their friends will undergo through the same shocks
• Results show that both scans of the individuals -when they were under threat and when their friends where under threat – were identical
• When participants were told that strangers would be threatened too, their brain scans were completely different
• The researchers then believe that other people who play a big part in our lives become a part of us and that we see ourselves in them

  As our relationship with others deepen; our ability to survive with them also does
• People tend to compare themselves with others
• One may feel insecure and tend to be jealous
• Another may feel inspired and tend to do better
• Comparing yourself to others

  Can be okay or become an unhealthy habit
• In the middle and late adolescence stages, you seek for deep friendship and connection with your peers
• In childhood, friends were treated as playmates or someone to do activities with
• During these years, friendship can either become a source of strength and happiness, or a source of rejection and self-doubt
• You begin to admire and aspire for the traits and qualities you believe you do not possess
• Peer


  An equal of a person - someone of the same rank, or status or background as an individual
• At this stage, you now transfer attachment from your parents or significant adults in your lives to peers outside your families and homes


  For emotional support, for affirmation and for companionship
• Interactions may either be beneficial or harmful to an adolescent depending on the quality, frequency and depth of the relationships
• Peers provide emotional support

  You turn to your peers during difficult times in your lives, without the fear of being punished or reprimanded, you also feel more open and become more honest in expressing your thoughts and feelings to them
• Peers help develop skills

  • Leadership skills: compromise, negotiate, solve conflicts, be creative and also become flexible in adapting to different situations
  • Social skills: be tactful and be sensitive to others' needs and feelings, ability to listen and communicate, get along with others and earn the trust of others