Discuss the extent to which adolescence can be defined as a period of ‘storm and stress’.
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- Adolescence - a period of storm and stress (Hall, 1904)?
- No
- Marcia (1980) identity status
- Diffusion - hasn't made a commitment
- Foreclosure - willing to commit without serious consideration
- Moratorium (crisis stage) - considers alternatives to commitments
- Achievement of identity - resolved crisis and found identity
- Searching for an identity could be a stressful time but is rewarding
- Not necessarily storm and stress period if adolescents achieve identity
- Piaget's formal operational stage
- Consider all possible combinations in relation to the whole problem
- Reason about a hypothetical situation
- Acquire more advanced cognitive thinking in adolescence
- Some authors (including Wellman & Gelman, 1998) suggest that many of these cognitive skills are acquired before adolescence
- Later changes are not developmental - adolescent thinking changes quantitatively
- Some authors (including Wellman & Gelman, 1998) suggest that many of these cognitive skills are acquired before adolescence
- Marcia (1980) identity status
- Yes
- Hormonal effects
- Hormonal bursts involving emotional extremes of despair and ecstasy
- Testosterone causes rapid arousal of emotions, mainly in males
- Oestrogen fluctuates causing mood variation of sadness/happiness, mainly in girls
- Elkind
- Egocentrism - only able to see the world through one's own perspective
- Leads to distorted perceptions of how other judge them - conflict
- Imaginary audience - others are as interested in them as they are in themselves
- Could lead to stress over one's appearance, eating etc.
- Egocentrism - only able to see the world through one's own perspective
- Another aspect of adolescent thinking is invincibility
- They are special so won't get addicted/harmed
- Lead to more risk taking behaviour
- They are special so won't get addicted/harmed
- Hormonal effects
- No
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