Adolescence Overview

Adolescence Overview

1. Physical Development

   • Body Image and Eating Disorders
     • Body Image
       • Definition
         • Inluences
     • Eating Disorders
       • Anorexia
         • 6 Characteristics Age of onset Sex differences Common Background characteristics of sufferers
         • Bulima Nervosa
           • Description Examples of compensatory actions
           • Obesity
             • Description Reasons for obesity Consequences

2. Cognitive Development

   • Formal Operational Thinking
     • Characteristics
       • Conceptual skills
   • Practical Cognition
     • Implications for classroom
       • Inductive reasoning Deductive reasoning
     • Implications for parent-child relationships
       • ARGUMENTATIVENESS
     • Self-consciousness and Self-focusing
       • Imaginary Audience Personal Fable Optimistic Bias
     • Social Cognition
       • Perspective taking Implicit personality theories
     • Planning and Decision-making
       • Behavioural Decision Theory

3. Personality Development

   • Erikson's Theory: Id v Id crisis
     • Identity Crisis Psychosocial moratorium Master 5 things to develop identity Identity crisis Identity foreclosure Negative identity Evaluations
   • James Marcia: Identity statuses
   • Forming a group identity
     • Ethnic identity formation Jean Phinney's model of ethnic identity formation Responses of minority groups to own awareness of ethnicity Other group identities

4. Social Development