1. What is the most stressful thing in your life? Why?

2. Do you enjoy being an adolescent? Why or why not?

3. Define Asynchrony.

Sec. 1 – Physical and Sexual DevelopmentSec. 2 – Personal Development

Some think this is a time of “storm and stress”

Some don’t think adolescence is that bad (89% of kids say its not that bad).

However, there are developmental tasks that must be mastered, which can be stressful.

9 challenges1.Accepting your makeup and being

masculine or feminine.2.Developing appropriate relations with

peers.3.Becoming emotionally independent

of parents/adults4.Achieving assurance that you will

become economically independent.

5. Deciding/preparing for a vocation. 6. 6. Developing cognitive skills and

concepts necessary for social competence.

7. Understanding/achieving socially responsible behavior.

8. Preparing for marriage/family9. Acquiring values

Girls – start 8-10 Boys – 9-16 All other information about puberty

you should already know, if not read page 95-97 (i.e. spermarche, menarche, etc.).

The average age of marriage – 26 Middle/upper class females who attend

college are more sexually active that similar females 30-40 years ago.

870,000 teenage pregnancies per year. 3 million cases of STDs. Abstinence is the only method that

guarantees no babies and no STDs.

Age 10-11 adolescence understand hypothetical situations.

Dr. Elkind says this leads to trouble, including:

Finding fault with authority figures, argumentativeness, indecisiveness, apparent hypocrisy, self-consciousness, invulnerability.

“who am I?” Completely normal “crisis” Part of growing up and realizing you

have to make decisions/choices that will affect your future.

The future is no longer a hypothetical situation.

You can’t just learn about a teenage based on them.

You have to understand that relationships and other people contribute to how they think/feel.