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2. Section 1: Physical and Sexual Development
Chapter Introduction
Section 1: Physical and Sexual Development
Section 2: Personal Development
Section 3: Social Development
Section 4: Gender Roles and Differences
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3. Chapter Objectives · Section 1
Physical and Sexual Development
Describe the physical development and biological changes that all adolescents experience.
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4. Chapter Objectives · Section 2
Personal Development
Outline the changes in patterns of reasoning, moral thinking, and the development of one’s identity during the transition from childhood to adulthood.
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5. Chapter Objectives · Section 3
Social Development
Discuss the changes that adolescents undergo in their social relationships.
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6. Chapter Objectives · Section 4
Gender Roles and Differences
Describe the physical and psychological gender differences of males and females, and discuss how beliefs about these differences influence behavior.
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7. Main Idea
All adolescents experience dramatic changes in their physical size, shape, and capacities, as well as biological development related to reproduction.
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8. Physical and Sexual Development
Adolescence is seen in our society as a time of preparation for entry into adulthood.
There are many initiation rites— ceremonies or rituals in which an individual is admitted to new status or accepted into a new position—that mark this occasion.
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9. Theories of Adolescence
G. Stanley Hall viewed adolescence as a time of great “storm and stress,” where the teen is a marginal being, confused, troubled, and highly frustrated.
Margaret Mead found that teens in other societies seemed to enjoy adolescence.
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10. Theories of Adolescence (cont.)
Many studies tend to support Mead’s conclusion and view adolescence as a less stressful time than previously thought.
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11. Theories of Adolescence (cont.)
According to Robert Havighurst, there are challenges that a teenager must face:
Accepting one’s physical makeup and acquiring a masculine or feminine gender role.
Developing appropriate relations with age-mates of both sexes.
Becoming emotionally independent of parents and other adults.
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12. Theories of Adolescence (cont.)
Achieving the assurance that one will become economically independent.
Deciding on, preparing for, and entering a vocation.
Developing the cognitive skills and concepts necessary for social competence.
Understanding and achieving socially responsible behavior.
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13. Theories of Adolescence (cont.)
Preparing for marriage and family.
Acquiring values that are harmonious and appropriate.
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14. Theories of Adolescence (cont.)
The pattern of development an adolescent displays depends on factors such as:
The individual’s adjustment in childhood.
The level of adjustment of his or her parents and peers.
The changes that occur during adolescence.
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15. Physical Development
Puberty—sexual maturation; the end of childhood and the point when reproduction is first possible.
Between 10 and 17, a girl has her first menarche, or the first menstrual period.
Between 12 and 13, boys experience their first spermarche.
This period of adolescent growth can be awkward due to asynchrony.
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16. Physical Development (cont.)
Individual differences in growth greatly affect the personality of young adolescents.
Boys who mature more quickly tend to have an advantage.
Girls who mature more quickly tend to be at a disadvantage.
Average Annual Gains in Height
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17. Sexual Development
Adolescence is a time when an individual develops attitudes about sex and expectations about the gender role he or she will fill.
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18. Sexual Development (cont.)
The questions many people ask themselves regarding sex:
What is the role of family, religion and government in providing information and guidance about sex?
How can we solve the problem of teenage pregnancy?
How can we stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS?
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19. Sexual Development (cont.)
Abstinence is the choice to avoid harmful behaviors such as premarital sex and the use of drugs and alcohol.
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20. Main Idea
The transition from childhood to adulthood involves changes in patterns of reasoning and moral thinking, as well as the development of one’s identity.
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21. Objectives
Describe the cognitive and ideological changes that characterize adolescence.
Outline the process by which adolescents find a personal identity.
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22. Cognitive Development
During adolescence, the thinking patterns characteristic of adults emerge.
Consideration of hypothetical questions
Understanding of abstract principles
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23. Cognitive Development (cont.)
Introspection—examining one’s own motives and thoughts—becomes possible.
An adolescent may deal with emotional feelings through rationalization.
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24. Cognitive Development (cont.)
The change in thinking pattern is usually accompanied by changes in personality and social interaction.
Adolescents tend to become idealistic.
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25. Cognitive Development (cont.)
Some problems adolescents develop due to immaturity and abstract thought processes:
Finding fault with authority figures
Argumentativeness
Indecisiveness
Apparent hypocrisy
Self-consciousness
Invulnerability
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26. Moral Development
Reaching higher levels of thinking, such as Kohlberg’s last two stages, involves the ability to abstract.
During the adolescent years, individuals gain the capacity for formal operational thinking.
Only about 1 in 10 adolescents, however, show higher levels of moral reasoning.
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27. Identity Development Erik Erikson’s view of identity crisis:
Building an identity is a task that is unique to adolescence.
They must become a unique individual with a valued sense of self in society.
Erik Erikson
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28. Identity Development (cont.)
Contributing factors include:
Physiological changes
Cognitive developments
Awakening sexual desires
Thinking about the past and future
The desire to feel unique and to fit in
The need to organize their priorities
Role confusion
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29. Identity Development (cont.)
Identity forms when adolescents are comfortable with:
An occupation
A set of values to believe in and live by
Their sexual identity
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30. Identity Development (cont.)
James Marcia distinguished four attempts to achieve a sense of identity:
Identity moratorium: consider issues but cant make decisions
Identity foreclosure: commitment basic on suggestions from others
Identity confused or diffused: no serious thought of the future
Identity achievement
Adolescent Identity Categories
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31. Identity Development (cont.)
Social Learning View:
A.C. Peterson—crisis is not the normal state of affairs for adolescents
Albert Bandura—social learning theory
Margaret Mead—human development is a continuous process as opposed to radical changes at certain points in life
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32. Main Idea Adolescents undergo many changes in
their social relationships, adjusting to
new relationships with parents and the
influence of peers.
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33. Objectives Describe the role of family and peers during adolescence.
Discuss difficulties that some adolescents encounter.
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34. The Role of the Family
One of the principal developmental tasks for adolescents is becoming independent of their families.
Some parents don’t want the child to leave.
The adolescent might also worry about whether or not he or she will succeed.
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35. The Role of Peers Many teenagers belong to peer groups or cliques.
These are usually determined by social class lines, looks, personality, and athletic ability.
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36. The Role of Peers (cont.)
Functions or peer groups:
They fulfill the need for closeness with others.
They give the adolescent a way of establishing an identity.
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37. The Role of Peers (cont.)
Drawbacks of peer groups:
They can create a fear of being disliked.
They encourage conformity.
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38. The Role of Peers (cont.)
Teenagers tend to share the same views as their parents on marriage, religion, and educational plans.
Adolescents tend to choose friends with values close to those of their parents.
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39. Difficulties During Adolescence
Mental illness and suicide are relatively rare among adolescents, but the rates have been high at times.
Feeling invulnerable may lead adolescents to do things with their peers that they would not do alone.
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40. Difficulties During Adolescence (cont.)
Juveniles were involved in 15% of all violent crime arrests and 29% of all property crime arrests in 2003.
Teenage depression is fairly widespread.
Juvenile Arrests in the United States
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41. Difficulties During Adolescence (cont.)
Causes of teenage depression:
The loss of a loved one.
Breakdown of the family unit.
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42. Difficulties During Adolescence (cont.)
Depressed teenagers usually show their feelings through anger and rebellion as opposed to sadness.
Communicating with someone you think may be depressed is key.
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43. Difficulties During Adolescence (cont.)
Many teenagers and young adults are affected by eating disorders such as:
Anorexia nervosa
Bulimia nervosa
This may result from a feeling of alienation or a need for approval from others.
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44. Main Idea
Females and males have physical and psychological gender differences. Our beliefs about what we think it means to be male or female influence our behavior.
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45. Objectives
Explain the difference between gender identity and gender role.
Describe gender differences in personality and cognitive abilities.
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46. Gender Roles
Gender identity—the sex group (masculine or feminine) to which an individual biologically belongs.
Gender role—the set of behaviors that society considers appropriate for each sex.
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47. Gender Roles (cont.)
Gender roles vary depending on the society and can change over time within that society.
Gender stereotype—an oversimplified or distorted generalization about the characteristics of men and women.
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48. Gender Roles (cont.)
Psychologist Sandra Bern believes that people should accept new androgynous roles.
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49. Gender Differences
Differences between male and female personalities include:
Males are more confident than females, especially in academic areas or in tasks stereotyped as masculine.
Females are more verbally aggressive, while males are more physically aggressive.
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50. Gender Differences (cont.)
Men are actually more talkative and interrupt women more while they are talking.
Women talk more when they have the power in a relationship.
Women use more hedges, disclaimers, and tag questions.
Nonverbally, women show submission and warmth, while men display more dominance and status.
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51. Gender Differences (cont.)
There are very few cognitive gender differences between males and females.
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52. Origins of Gender Differences
Most psychologists agree that nature and nurture interact to influence gender differences.
Biological Theory
Based on the role of anatomy, hormones, and brain organization.
Differences in gender are the result of behaviors that evolved from early men and women in order to survive.
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53. Origins of Gender Differences (cont.)
Psychoanalytical Theory
A child identifies with a parent of the same sex, and gender identity results.
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54. Origins of Gender Differences (cont.)
Social Learning Theory
Emphasizes the role of social and cognitive processes on how we perceive, organize, and use information.
Children learn their gender roles by observing and imitating models.
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55. Origins of Gender Differences (cont.)
Cognitive-Developmental Theory
Children acquire gender roles by interacting with their environment and thinking about those experiences.
A child must first see himself or herself as male or female, and then begin to organize behavior around this concept.
Gender schema
Test Yourself
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56. Changing Gender Roles
The roles of men and women are changing, but many inequalities still exist.
Women do not advance as quickly as men.
Women occupy lower levels of leadership positions.
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57. Changing Gender Roles (cont.)
Reasons:
Companies may discriminate—many women interrupt their career to have children.
Men and women have different levels of ambition due to societal teachings.
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58. Average Annual Gains in Height
Hormones controlled by the endocrine system can cause dramatic growth spurts; a boy may experience a yearly increase of 4–6 inches (10–15 cm), while a girl may increase 3–5 inches (8–13 cm) in height.
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59. Adolescent Identity Categories
Progress in the search for one’s identity can be divided into four categories.
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60. Juvenile Arrests in the United States
Juvenile arrests for both violent crime and property crime decreased over the past decade.
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61. Test Yourself
When it comes to spatial abilities, some argue that women are better than men at tracking objects and that men are better at forming “mental maps.” In these tests, most men would find Test A easier, while most women find Test B easier.
Answer: Figures 1 and 3 are the same as the figure on the left.
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62. Test Yourself
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63. Test Yourself
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64. Erik Erikson 1902–1994
“Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.”
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72. initiation rites: ceremonies or rituals in which an individual is admitted to new status or accepted into a new position
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73. puberty: sexual maturation; the end of childhood and the point when reproduction is first possible
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74. menarche: the first menstrual period
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75. spermarche: period during which males achieve first ejaculation
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76. asynchrony: the condition during adolescence in which the growth or maturation of bodily parts is uneven
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77. rationalization: a process where by an individual seeks to explain an often unpleasant emotion or behavior in a way that will preserve his or her self-esteem
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78. identity crisis: a period of inner conflict during which adolescents worry intensely about who they are
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79. social learning theory: Bandura’s view of human development; emphasizes interaction
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80. clique: a small, exclusive group of people within a larger group
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81. conformity: acting in accordance with some specified authority
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82. anorexia nervosa: a serious eating disorder characterized by a fear of gaining weight that results in prolonged self-starvation and dramatic weight loss
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83. bulimia nervosa: a serious eating disorder characterized by compulsive overeating usually followed by self- induced vomiting or abuse of laxatives
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84. gender identity: the sex group (masculine or feminine) to which an individual biologically belongs
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85. gender role: the set of behaviors that society considers appropriate for each sex
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86. gender stereotype: an oversimplified or distorted generalization about the characteristics of men and women
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87. androgynous: combining or blending traditionally male and female characteristics
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88. gender schema: a set of behaviors organized around how either a male or female should think and behave
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