Week Five Blog Post by Miles O'Brien


Week 5 Blog Post by Miles O'Brien
Chapter 8 outlined the beginning parts of adolescence and how the human develops through this period in their life. A huge part of the adolescence stage in our lives involves puberty. Puberty is a process of physical changes that take place in the body that evolves us humans to adults. As the human develops through adolescence, they develop hormonal changes that make them question their personality and who they are. Influences from peers and successful people they see on television can greatly determine how the adolescent grows up. They can often see false representations of how the human should be which can lead to disorders or behaviors that are not healthy. Body image as described on page 190 explains that adolescence can often become obsessed with their appearance and develop disorders, such as anorexia, to try and justify their appearance. It is in this cognitive developmental period that Piaget called the Formal Operational Stage. Cognitive development also includes emotions and how the brain grows. During this part of growth in the brain, the reticular activation system, as described on page 192 helps the body sort out irrelevant data. A study done by Yurgelun-Todd in 1998 compared how adolescences and adults respond to fearful pictures. This analysis concluded that adolescences registered the fear incorrectly. Young adults and teenagers were able to differentiate between these fears. It was at this point that Yurgelun-Todd was able to determine that during adolescence can figure out these emotions. Convergent thinking is also developed during this stage where critical thinking plays a role into their growth. Divergent thinking on the other hand has too many possible answers to be solved, as described on page 193. Erickson had a theory of that peoples main goal is to strive for an identity to associate with. I, myself agree moreso with Marica’s theory of identity crisis that is developed in two steps. The first step is going through a series of identity crisis and the second step is associating with one. I found this relevant in my life because I often found myself going in and out of clicks during earlier stages in life, figuring out who I am based on who I chose to associate myself with. I wouldn’t necessarily call them “crises” but more so a change of association based on who I wanted to be. The peers play a large role in the teen years and have a lot of benefits to improving the person as an individual.  It is seen in America today that peer groups are becoming more important than the family’s roles in adolescent children because tradition family functions are being lost. This correlation is upsetting to understand because this is not a function that should be fading away. One must consider the divorce rate and socioeconomic status of specific areas to understand why certain adolescences develop the way they do growing up in single parent house homes. This can also have a large impact on pregnancy rates because the parents aren’t around or willing to talk about the truth of sexual intercourse and its danger. This can also be used to compare crime in teens and adolescence.

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