Analysis Of Running Head: Cognitive Problems In Adolescence
Running head: COGNITIVE FAULTS IN ADOLESCENCE 1
Running head: COGNITIVE FAULTS IN ADOLESCENCE 2
Abstract
An adolescent is faced with some of the hardest decisions that might be morally acceptable. Theorists have studied adolescents throughout time and have come to the conclusion that they do in fact go through stages from the preteen ages through early adulthood. Cognitive development will help pave the way for an adolescent to enter moral development. Adolescents often contemplate who they are, who they want to be, and where they see themselves in the future.
Running head: COGNITIVE FAULTS IN ADOLESCENCE 3 Adolescence is one of the hardest times of a child’s life. They reach a …show more content…
Theorists have studied the way an adolescent perceives themselves, the people around them and in situations they encounter. Erik Erikson and James Marcia have defined these theories as identity development and identity statuses. The identity development was a part of Erik Erikson’s fifth stage of psychosocial development theory. This stage entails the ego identity versus role diffusion. In this stage an adolescent is faced with contemplation about who they are, who they would like to become, and where they see themselves in the future. James Marcia’s development of identity theory touches on each scenario of ethnic groups and backgrounds. Adolescents who enter this stage will contemplate their religious beliefs with moral values or who they want to be might not exactly fit into their ethnic background. (Rathus, …show more content…
Boys and girls will mature differently in this aspect of life. Puberty has arrived slightly earlier in females than in males. Females will experience puberty around age ten, but males will experience the peak of their puberty around age eleven or twelve. Puberty is not the only difference in sex difference associated with cognitive development. Aspects such as body image and physical appearance become an interest to males and females in the mid-puberty stage. Although both sexes are concerned with the way they look, they have different goals to maintain what they and their peers see as “acceptable”. These differences might occur because of the rapid change in what is acceptable in that day and age. Standards within an image that might be socially acceptable within a generation have changed considerably over time and will continue to change. (Rathus,
Running head: COGNITIVE FAULTS IN ADOLESCENCE 2
Abstract
An adolescent is faced with some of the hardest decisions that might be morally acceptable. Theorists have studied adolescents throughout time and have come to the conclusion that they do in fact go through stages from the preteen ages through early adulthood. Cognitive development will help pave the way for an adolescent to enter moral development. Adolescents often contemplate who they are, who they want to be, and where they see themselves in the future.
Running head: COGNITIVE FAULTS IN ADOLESCENCE 3 Adolescence is one of the hardest times of a child’s life. They reach a …show more content…
Theorists have studied the way an adolescent perceives themselves, the people around them and in situations they encounter. Erik Erikson and James Marcia have defined these theories as identity development and identity statuses. The identity development was a part of Erik Erikson’s fifth stage of psychosocial development theory. This stage entails the ego identity versus role diffusion. In this stage an adolescent is faced with contemplation about who they are, who they would like to become, and where they see themselves in the future. James Marcia’s development of identity theory touches on each scenario of ethnic groups and backgrounds. Adolescents who enter this stage will contemplate their religious beliefs with moral values or who they want to be might not exactly fit into their ethnic background. (Rathus, …show more content…
Boys and girls will mature differently in this aspect of life. Puberty has arrived slightly earlier in females than in males. Females will experience puberty around age ten, but males will experience the peak of their puberty around age eleven or twelve. Puberty is not the only difference in sex difference associated with cognitive development. Aspects such as body image and physical appearance become an interest to males and females in the mid-puberty stage. Although both sexes are concerned with the way they look, they have different goals to maintain what they and their peers see as “acceptable”. These differences might occur because of the rapid change in what is acceptable in that day and age. Standards within an image that might be socially acceptable within a generation have changed considerably over time and will continue to change. (Rathus,