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IDENTITY AND STATUSES AND DEVELOPMENT - Crisis -exploration - a period where adolescent chooses among meaningful alternatives - Commitment - adolescent shows a personal investment in what he will do (May picture dito) - Researchers believe that "MAMA" cycle (moratorium-achiever-moratorium-achiever) is a common pattern of progression for identity

Families - adoloscents push for autonomy and responsibility - balance between autonomy and control, independence and connection - Parent-adolescent Conflict - due to biological mand cognitive changes in both adolescmet children and parents - conflicts actually revolve more on everyday events

Peers - conformity to peer pressur: both positive and negative - Cliques and crowds - cliques: small groups that range 2-12 and average to 5-6 individuals; usually same sex and age - crowds: larger group structure, less personal, defined by activities adolescents engage in - adolescent group vs. children groups - adolescent groups are more formal, heterogenous, and mixed gender than children groups - Friendships - spend more time with their peers; rely on friends for companionship and intimacy - friendship in early adolescence as significant predictor of self worth in early adulthood

Dating and Romantic Relationships - Early relationships serve as a context to - explore how attractive they are - how they should romantically interact with someone - effect on peer group - Sociocultural context influences adolescents datng patterns

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- age at which dating begins - how much freedom in dating is allowed - roles of males and females in dating

Other Issues - Self esteem - Narcissism - Technology and digitally-mediated communication - transition for adolescence to adulthood

Developmemt of Adulthood Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood -Emerging adulthood - ages 18-25 years - Key Features - identity exploration (love and work) - instability - self focused - feeling "in between" - age of possibilities - Markers of becoming an adult a. Independent decision making/ taking responsibility for oneself b. Economic independence - Rites of passage - a ritual that marks the transition of an individual from adolescence to adulthood a. educational rite b. Social rite c. Economic rite d. Religous rite

Early Adulthood Physical Development - physical health reaches its peak and begins to decline by 30 y.o - peak of physical perfrmances 19-26 y.o - by 30, muscle tone and strength begin to decline - healthiest stage - bad health habits are formed: -inactivity, diet and obesity, sibstance abuse (alcohol, nicotine)

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- sexuality

Cognitive Development - is there a 5th stage in Piagets cognitive developmemt (postformal stage)? - Postformal thought -reflexive, relativistic, and contextual - provisional -realistic - influenced by emotion - Creativity -most creative works produced in 30s - 80% of most important contributions were completed by age 50 - career and work - developmental changes in career choice - starts to build career - work os a key aspect of ones identity (1/3 of life spent at work) -Hollands Personality Type Theory - person has to choose a career that mathces his/her personality - but more important to match a career

Socioemotional Developmemt - eriksons intimacy vs isolation -temperament in childhood is linked with adjistment in early adulthood - easy children, well adjusted young adults; high activity level in childhood, outgoing young adults - marital trends -adults remaining single longer - get married much later - adult lifestyle - single adults, cohabiting adults, LGBT adults - friendship in adulthood - more same sex friendships than cross sex friendships