1. The transition period from childhood to adulthood.
Adolescence
The transition period from childhood to adulthood.

2. Is adolescence getting longer or shorter?

3. Physical Development
It all begins with puberty
Puberty: the period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing.

4. Primary Sexual Characteristics
The body structures that make sexual reproduction possible
Testicles
Ovaries
Penis
Vagina

5. Secondary Sexual Characteristics
Nonreproductive sexual characteristics
Deepening of male voice
Female breasts
Body hair
Hips

6. Sequence is way more predictable than the timing.
Puberty
Sequence is way more predictable than the timing.
How might timing differences effect an adolescent socially?

7. Lawrence Kohlberg and his stages of Morality
Preconventional Morality
Conventional Morality
Postconventional Morality

8. Preconventional Morality
Morality of self- interest
Their actions are either to avoid punishment or to gain rewards.

9. Conventional Morality
Morality is based upon obeying laws to
Maintain social order
To gain social approval

10. Postconventional Morality
Morality based on your OWN ethical principles.
You draw your OWN conclusions and make your own judgments

11. Its all about forming an identity!!!
Social Development
Its all about forming an identity!!!

12. Identity One’s sense of self.
The idea that an adolescent’s job is to find oneself by testing various roles.
Comes from Erik Erikson’s stages of Psychosocial development.

13. Identity
Some teenagers take their identity early by sharing their parents values and expectations.
Some teenagers will adopt a negative identity- opposition to society, but conforms to a peer group.

14. Intimacy
Towards the end of adolescence, intimacy becomes the prime goal.
Can you list the intimacy differences between men and women?
Next Slides are Erikson, chart handout is better

15. Trust vs. Mistrust Age Important Event Description Birth - 18 months
Feeding
Infants form a loving, trusting relationship with parents; they also learn to mistrust others.

16. Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt
Age
Important Event
Description
18 months - 3 Years
Toilet Training
Child's energies are directed toward physical skills: walking, grasping, and toilet training. The child learns control along with a healthy dose of shame and doubt.

17. Initiative vs. Guilt Age Important Event Description 3 - 6 Years
Independence
Child becomes more assertive, takes more initiative, becomes more forceful.

18. Competence vs. Inferiority
Age
Important Event
Description
Years
School
The child must deal with demands to learn new skills while risking a sense of inferiority and failure

19. Identity vs. Role Confusion
Age
Important Event
Description
Adolescence
Peers
Teens must achieve self-identity while deciphering their roles in occupation, politics, and religion.

20. Intimacy vs. Isolation Age Important Event Description Young Adult
Relationships
The young adult must develop marriage-seeking relationships while combating feelings of isolation.

21. Generativity vs. Stagnation
Age
Important Event
Description
Middle Adult
Parenting
Assuming the role of parents signifies the need to continue the generations while avoiding the inevitable feeling of failure.

22. Integrity vs. Despair Age Important Event Description Late Adult
Life Reflection
Acceptance of one's lifetime accomplishments and sense of fulfillment.