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Chapter 12 - Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence

This document summarizes key aspects of physical and cognitive development during adolescence. It discusses how adolescents experience changes in relationships with parents and intimacy with peers, as well as sexual exploration. Puberty brings biological changes like growth spurts and development of secondary sex characteristics. Adolescents also experience cognitive changes as their thinking becomes more abstract and capable of higher-order thinking. However, their thought is also egocentric during this stage as they experience an imaginary audience and personal fable where they feel uniquely misunderstood.

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Chapter 12 - Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence

This document summarizes key aspects of physical and cognitive development during adolescence. It discusses how adolescents experience changes in relationships with parents and intimacy with peers, as well as sexual exploration. Puberty brings biological changes like growth spurts and development of secondary sex characteristics. Adolescents also experience cognitive changes as their thinking becomes more abstract and capable of higher-order thinking. However, their thought is also egocentric during this stage as they experience an imaginary audience and personal fable where they feel uniquely misunderstood.

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Rosalinda Mintre

1213012013
Chapter 12 Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence
I. The transition to adolescence
a. Relationships with parents take a different form, moments with peers become
more intimate, and dating occurs for the first time, as does sexual exploration and
possibly intercourse.
b. The adolescents thought are more abstract and idealistic. Biological changes
trigger a heightened interest in body image.
II. Physical development
a. Pubertal change
i. Its hard to know the beginning and the end of puberty.
ii. For boys: first whisker or first wet dream
iii. For girls: menarche (start between 10 15,5 years old), widening of hips
iv. Testosterone a hormone associated in boys with the development of
genitals, an increase in height, and a change in voice
v. Estradiol a hormone associated in girls with breast, uterine, ad skeletal
development
b. Psychological accompaniments of physical changes
i. Adolescents are preoccupied with their bodies and develop individual
images of what their bodies are like
c. Are pubertys effects exaggerated?
i. Puberty affects some adolescents more strongly than others and some
behaviors more strongly than others. Body image, dating interest, and
sexual behavior are affected by pubertal change
III. Cognitive developmental changes
a. Formal operational thought
i. Adolescents thought becomes more abstract, logical, idealistic; more
capable of examining ones own thoughts, others thoughts, and what
others are thinking about oneself; and more likely to interpret and monitor
the social world.
b. Social cognition
i. Adolescent thought is egocentric. Its divided into 2:
1. Imaginary audience:
a. Attention-getting behavior reflects egocentrism and the
desire to be on stage, noticed, and visible.
2. Personal fable
a. Adolescents sense of personal uniqueness makes them feel
that no one can understand how they really feel
IV. The nature of adolescents schooling
a. Preparing students for comprehensive roles in life
Question:
1. Will imaginary audience be permanent in the rest of human life? Or will it be changed if
the adolescent can cope up with it?

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