Read pages 92 - 99 answer the following questions
Questions from class:
1. What is adolescence?
2. How did G. Stanley Hall characterize adolescence?
3. What influenced Margaret Mead to disagree with Hall's
view?
4. List three of the developmental tasks that adolescents
must master.
5. What biological event marks the end of childhood?
6. How do adolescents develop physically during this
period?
7. How do individual growth differences affect an
adolescent's personality?
8. What behavioral changes accompany sexual
maturation?
9. What do studies indicate about the children of teenage
mothers?
10. What fears affect sexual behavior?
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G. Stanley Hall: G. Stanley Hall (1844 - 1924) is known as the Father of Adolescence. His work influenced adolescent themes in psychology, popular culture, and education.
Hall coined the term "storm and stress" to describe the period of adolescence. This period is characterized by a teenager's conflict with parents, mood disruptions, and engagement in risky behavior. Although the concept of storm and stress is not accepted as a universal phenomenon in adolescents, psychologists recognize that this phenomenon is most likely to take place during adolescence.
Martha Mead: In 1928, Martha Mead published Coming of Age in Samoa, an anthropological work based on field work she had conducted on female adolescents in Samoa. In Mead's book that became a best seller and unleashed a storm of controversy, she argued that it was cultural factors rather than biological forces that caused adolescents to experience emotional and psychological stress.
Mead's work had taken shape against a backdrop of broader anxieties about American youth generally and female adolescents specifically who were openly challenging social and sexual mores. Many contemporaries believed that the "storm and stress" of adolescence was biologically determined following a three-volume study of largely male adolescents by American psychologist G. Stanley Hall in 1904. Under the direction of her mentor, the anthropologist, Franz Boaz, Margaret Mead sought to study whether adolescence was a "period of mental and emotional distress for the growing girl as inevitably as teething is a period for the small baby? Can we think of adolescence as a time in the life history of every girl which carries with it symptoms of conflict and stress as surely as it implies a change in the girls' body."
In 1925, Mead observed, interviewed, and interacted with 68 girls between the ages of 9 and 20 living in three villages on the island of Ta‘ū in American Samoa. After 9 months of study, Mead concluded that unlike stressed American girls, the well-balanced and carefree nature of sexually-active Samoan girls was due to the cultural stability of their society free of conflicting values, expectations, and shameful taboos. Largely relieved of the baby-tending responsibilities that had burdened them as little girls, Samoan adolescents reveled in their freedom and deferred marriage during this "best period" in their lives.
Questions from class:
1. What is adolescence?
2. How did G. Stanley Hall characterize adolescence?
3. What influenced Margaret Mead to disagree with Hall's
view?
4. List three of the developmental tasks that adolescents
must master.
5. What biological event marks the end of childhood?
6. How do adolescents develop physically during this
period?
7. How do individual growth differences affect an
adolescent's personality?
8. What behavioral changes accompany sexual
maturation?
9. What do studies indicate about the children of teenage
mothers?
10. What fears affect sexual behavior?
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G. Stanley Hall: G. Stanley Hall (1844 - 1924) is known as the Father of Adolescence. His work influenced adolescent themes in psychology, popular culture, and education.
Hall coined the term "storm and stress" to describe the period of adolescence. This period is characterized by a teenager's conflict with parents, mood disruptions, and engagement in risky behavior. Although the concept of storm and stress is not accepted as a universal phenomenon in adolescents, psychologists recognize that this phenomenon is most likely to take place during adolescence.
Martha Mead: In 1928, Martha Mead published Coming of Age in Samoa, an anthropological work based on field work she had conducted on female adolescents in Samoa. In Mead's book that became a best seller and unleashed a storm of controversy, she argued that it was cultural factors rather than biological forces that caused adolescents to experience emotional and psychological stress.
Mead's work had taken shape against a backdrop of broader anxieties about American youth generally and female adolescents specifically who were openly challenging social and sexual mores. Many contemporaries believed that the "storm and stress" of adolescence was biologically determined following a three-volume study of largely male adolescents by American psychologist G. Stanley Hall in 1904. Under the direction of her mentor, the anthropologist, Franz Boaz, Margaret Mead sought to study whether adolescence was a "period of mental and emotional distress for the growing girl as inevitably as teething is a period for the small baby? Can we think of adolescence as a time in the life history of every girl which carries with it symptoms of conflict and stress as surely as it implies a change in the girls' body."
In 1925, Mead observed, interviewed, and interacted with 68 girls between the ages of 9 and 20 living in three villages on the island of Ta‘ū in American Samoa. After 9 months of study, Mead concluded that unlike stressed American girls, the well-balanced and carefree nature of sexually-active Samoan girls was due to the cultural stability of their society free of conflicting values, expectations, and shameful taboos. Largely relieved of the baby-tending responsibilities that had burdened them as little girls, Samoan adolescents reveled in their freedom and deferred marriage during this "best period" in their lives.