PSY 375 Week 2 DQs 1 , 2 PSY 375 Week 3 Learning Team Assignment Middle Childhood and Adolescence Development Paper Learning Team Assignment Middle Childhood and Adolescence Development Paper • Prepare a 1,500- to 1,700-word paper in which you address adolescence and how this stage affects development. Include where appropriate the positive and/or negative consequences of developmental choices during this time period. • Address the following items: • Describe changes in peer relationships in middle childhood and adolescence. • Examine aspects of adolescent egocentrism. • Analyze pressures often faced in adolescence, such as peer pressure, substance use and abuse, dating, sexuality, and changes within family relationships.
This may cause the teenager to become more independent as they may resent their parents, for getting divorced, and leave home. The family, in which an adolescent is living in at the time of puberty, can make a difference to how a teenager handles puberty. “Puberty is characterized by accelerated physical growth and intense psycho-social adjustment” (Mattson 6). Rapid transitions begin to take place, and their bodies start to transform. Boys commence to develop later than girls, causing stress due to identity quandaries.
Coming of Age Coming of Age Tiffany Baker Psychology 101 Teacher: Jennifer Fitch By Tiffany Baker Psychology 101 Teacher: Jennifer Fitch By Abstract Coming of Age can be tough especially entering the adult world! Sometimes growing up you don’t realize how easy you have it as a kid. As you grow up you go through obstacles that “mold” and “shape” you into the person you become. I can’t say that I would want to be a kid again but there are somethings I would like to change about my past. Things happen in your life for a reason, some good and some bad.
There bodies change, its different for boy as it is for girls. Girls tend to hit puberty by the age of 13, and boys around the age of 14. They become more sporty as they are now physically capable to be able to compete with peers. They may become shy about asking for advice. Beginning to build the frame work of adult like such as choosing to enter into higher education.
Some girls may think the only way to keep their boyfriend is to have sex with them and the thought of having their baby just to keep them or trap them into staying with them is also a reality which often times back fires on the girl. Girls now days are not so apt to remain a virgin till they are married. Times have changed with each generation coming of age. Young kids do not always think about what their priorities are and what they can do to help themselves keep on track with them. They often time just make decisions that will benefit them for the moment.
If this is the case the child could start to under achieve and decide to not concentrate as hard on their school work. Doing this may also cause the child to act out in their class and disrupt other children’s learning, as the teacher needs to take time out of the scheduled lesson to tell the child their behaviour is unacceptable. B) How a health factor may impact on a child’s social or emotional development: A health factor that may impact on a child’s social and emotional development could be their height and weight for example: If the child is either short for their age of over weight they may experience a form of bullying from their peers, have a lack of friends at home and at school. This could affect them both socially and emotionally. Socially the child could be a loner or on their own during break or lunchtimes at
This transition can be both challenging and exciting. 2- Puberty: Puberty is the major transition that all children's life . It can be a difficult time for both sexes emotionally, socially and phsically. This transition could make children feel confused because they can't control what is happening to them and also make them argumentative with parents. 3- Moving home/Either locally or to a new area: Any change to a child’s environment will also cause transition.
It is very expensive to have a child and the parents need to be aware. Teens who get pregnant also need to know the options available to them. They have three main choices available to them: abortion, adoption, and having the baby. If the parents are not educated in this area, they may make an uneducated decision. Possibly the most important reason that teens need to be educated
Peer Pressure: positive or negative influence? Peer pressure is a negative on students because: It can influence adults and kids to do dangerous activities, and end up getting hurt in the end. It may also influence people to take part in actions they are not comfortable in doing. Peer Pressure can often lead to a loss of individuality from the peers that have probably done it as well. With the loss of individuality and the risk of getting hurt and getting in trouble with the police or other forms of punishment, is peer pressure changing the ways that this generation's teens and adults think?
Features of early adulthood - Psycho/social The late teens and early twenties is a time where young people face many challenges and feelings of uncertainty. It is when adolescence is left behind and adult responsibilities are assumed. However these routes to adult responsibilities are highly diverse in timing and order across individuals. During these years of extended exploration, young people prolong identity development as they explore alternatives in breadth and depth. These alternatives may be work, personal beliefs, values, love and those with the economic resources can explore alternatives in education.