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Title: PSYC 135: General Psychology II


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PSYC 135General Psychology II
  • Dr. Brett A. Steinberg
  • Department of Psychology
  • Room 172, W.A. Bousfield Hall
  • Tel 860-486-6260 E-Mail brett.steinberg_at_ucon
    n.edu

2
Specific DevelopmentalStages IIAdolescence
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Overview of Topic (Dont Copy)
  • 1) Introduction
  • 2) Typical development
  • A) Characteristics of adolescence
  • B) Families and parenting styles
  • 3) Atypical development
  • A) Dyslexia
  • B) Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

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Introduction
  • Adolescence ? teenage years
  • Review of developmental levels
  • Cognitive (Piaget) Formal operations
  • Psychosocial (Erikson) Identity versus role
    confusion
  • Moral (Kohlberg) Conventional or postconventional

5
Characteristics of Adolescence
  • 1) Sexual maturation
  • Changes in body image
  • 2) Cognitive and behavioral changes
  • Maturation of frontal lobes
  • 3) Develop individual, familial, and ethnic
    identity

6
Characteristics (Cont.)
  • 4) More independence and choices, but limited
    experience
  • 5) Peers more important as reference group

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Families
  • Recall Lockes tabula rasa
  • Five functions
  • 1) Companionship and emotional refuge
  • 2) Testing ground for behavior
  • 3) Sex-role identification
  • 4) Values and attitudes
  • 5) Family history and cultural identity

8
Families (Cont.)
  • Family system (Minuchin, 1974) Relationships
    that are governed by unspoken rules
  • Four concepts
  • Subsystems (subgroups, e.g. parents)
  • Boundaries (emotional separation between
    subsystems)
  • Homeostasis (resistance to change)
  • Coalitions (ganging up, e.g. mom and son vs.
    dad)

9
Parenting Styles
  • Baumrind (1971)
  • Authoritarian Do what I say!
  • Permissive Do what you want.
  • Authoritative Lets discuss it.
  • Possible consequences of each style
  • Authoritarian Fearful resentful of authority
  • Permissive Self-centered low self-confidence
  • Authoritative Responsible high self-confidence

10
Dyslexia
  • Definition Reading that is worse than expected,
    given age, IQ, and education
  • Four problems
  • 1) Pronouncing words (e.g. aminal)
  • 2) Decoding letters (e.g. d for b)
  • 3) Remembering verbal sequences (e.g. addresses)
  • 4) Self-esteem and social relationships

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Dyslexia (Cont.)
  • More common in males
  • but so is misbehavior
  • Cause Difficulty matching sounds to letters
    (phoneme-to-grapheme conversion)
  • Treatment Tutoring in phonics

12
ADHD
  • Definition Difficulty in focusing attention and
    controlling behavior seen by 7 years
  • Four problems
  • 1) Organizing
  • 2) Following through
  • 3) Playing quietly
  • 4) Self-esteem and social relationships

13
ADHD (Cont.)
  • More common in males
  • but so is misbehavior
  • Cause Related to function of frontal lobes and
    related areas of brain
  • Treatment Medication (e.g. Ritalin) and family
    therapy
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