Psychology Week 5: Whowell
This week the reading was on chapters 8 and 9. Chapter 8 was about adolescence. The first thing that caught my eye, was that I did not know a period was called a menarche. The overall development for adolescence is hard to track. Physical development is the easier to track, however stating when exactly puberty starts is hard. An example of this is when a girl gets her period at 11 or 12, puberty may have physically happened but mentally will still take a while. Alternatively, an eighteen year old girl who hasn't gotten her period yet, has still gone through puberty without the physical period. Another cool fact is that girls typically get taller sooner, and weight changes before boys. Girl hips widen as boys' shoulder broaden. The chapter covers eating disorders, like bulimia and anorexia, that girls starve themselves, or binge eat and then throw up to maintain "skinny" or "perfect" body image. Piaget theory, specifically the formal operational stage was cover in this chapter. That abstract, reasoning logically, hypothetical thinking, and concrete operations occur at this stage of development. The neurons in the brain spindle cells play a part in why adolescences create emotions. Another fun fact is that ape and humans only have spindle cells. These cells are not present at birth but grow over time. Amgydala, part of brain responsible for emotions, plays a huge part in identifying emotions for adolescences, while adults use their prefrontal, which is responsible for reason and thought. Erikson's theories were also covered in this chapter, his fifth stage of identity versus identity confusion. This would be like trying to fit in with the cool girls at school, even though they pick on your friends or do things you don't agree with. These theories stuck out the most to me in chapter 8.
Chapter 9 was about Early adulthood, a fact that stuck out to me was that woman reach maximum height at 18, while men reach at 20. I always that men stop growing later in their twenties. I am a little sad, I will never be taller than 5'5. This textbook is a little outdated, the polls in here are from 2008, I think if they did a study in 2017 about binge drinking the numbers would be staggering higher. The chapter covered cognitive development, which is the ability to confront challenges, using knowledge acquired to dive further into a topic that they are curious about. Feminist, equality for woman, sexual identity, what our biological inheritance that makes us male or female. and How one identifies sexual and romantic attraction. This chapter also cover marriage, and divorce, the last year's polls, in 2006, put divorce rates at higher than 50%!! I hope this have beat the trend and decreased, however with the culture as it is now I can only see it going up.
This weeks reading was very interesting to me and a lot of things stood out to me, interested to see what stood out to all of you!
Chapter 9 was about Early adulthood, a fact that stuck out to me was that woman reach maximum height at 18, while men reach at 20. I always that men stop growing later in their twenties. I am a little sad, I will never be taller than 5'5. This textbook is a little outdated, the polls in here are from 2008, I think if they did a study in 2017 about binge drinking the numbers would be staggering higher. The chapter covered cognitive development, which is the ability to confront challenges, using knowledge acquired to dive further into a topic that they are curious about. Feminist, equality for woman, sexual identity, what our biological inheritance that makes us male or female. and How one identifies sexual and romantic attraction. This chapter also cover marriage, and divorce, the last year's polls, in 2006, put divorce rates at higher than 50%!! I hope this have beat the trend and decreased, however with the culture as it is now I can only see it going up.
This weeks reading was very interesting to me and a lot of things stood out to me, interested to see what stood out to all of you!
Glad you picked up on Ericsson's Identity vs. Role Confusion. Socially I believe this is the biggest obstacle to overcome during adolescence. Changing so rapidly physically is hard enough but we often forgot of all the social challenges as well. Erickson does a wonderful job in my opinion targeting the biggest challenges. Who am I? Who do I want to be?
ReplyDeleteI also didn't know the word 'menarche'. It is definitely true that the adolescent track is hard. Noting the dilemma of going through puberty and how differently the boys and girls change should make us sensitive to the emotional roller coaster young people face. This stage of wrestling with identity must truly be difficult thank you for taking the time to note the challenges the youth face on their track to adulthood both cognitively and emotionally.
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Eikson's theory of Psychosocial Theory was very interesting to me as well especially after watching the video Education of Shelby Knox. In Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory of identity is that some youths commit themselves to an identity too earlier in life. Shelby is a prime example of this because she commits herself to a Christian worldview but quickly realizes that she supports G.A.P Youth committee which is frowned upon in the Lubbock community. Shelby once believed that absence until marriage is the holiest way to stay protected until she connected with the gay community which could not wait until marriage to have sex because marriage was not an option at this time. Here Shelby faces a dilemma where she contemplates her faith and identity. Children’s identities are ever-changing and will be until the end of time. During Adolescence this is where the foundation of education becomes most important because children are trying to figure out who exactly they are!
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