PSY 318: Week 2

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PSY 318 Week 2

• Anna Freud, Adolescence
• Jean Piaget, Adolescence
• Ethnicity and Research on Adolescence Even the
  rat was White.
• Film Country Boys
• The Use of Autobiographical Story
• Lets begin with cultural life story questions --
  in pairs take up the first 6 questions
• -- compartir what your responses are
• Sign up to lead class discussion

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What and When is Adolescence?

• Anna Freud -- personality development
• Jean Piaget -- cognitive development
• Erik Erikson -- identity development
• Carol Gilligan -- moral development

Psychology 318
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• Personality Development What is normal?
• Cognitive Development How do adolescents think?
  What is the logic of the adolescent mind?
• Identity Development Who am I? Who will I love?
  What will be my work?
• Social Development How do I fit within my
  culture and society?

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ANNA FREUDS PSYCHOANALYTIC VIEWS

• raises the question of what is normal during
  adolescence

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ANNA FREUDS PSYCHOANALYTIC VIEWS

• raises the still relevant issue of adolescence
  being a stepchild where analytic thinking is
  concerned

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ANNA FREUDS PSYCHOANALYTIC VIEWS

• raises the curious fact that we fail as adults to
  recover, as a rule, the atmosphere in which the
  adolescent lives, his anxieties...despair...the
  burning...

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ANNA FREUDS PSYCHOANALYTIC VIEWS

• How seldom in treatment of my adult cases I
  succeed in reviving their adolescent experiences
  in full force
• The analytic treatment of adolescents is a
  hazardous venture from beginning to end, a
  venture in which the analyst has to meet
  resistances of unusual strength and variety

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ANNA FREUDS PSYCHOANALYTIC VIEWS

• Is the adolescent upset inevitable?
• Is the adolescent upset predictable?

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ANNA FREUDS PSYCHOANALYTIC VIEWS

• The difficulty in drawing the line between
  normality and pathology

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ANNA FREUDS PSYCHOANALYTIC VIEWS

• Adolescence is by its nature an interruption of
  peaceful growth

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ANNA FREUDS PSYCHOANALYTIC VIEWS

• The upholding of a steady equilibrium during the
  adolescent process is in itself abnormal

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ANNA FREUDS PSYCHOANALYTIC VIEWS

• Once we accept for adolescence disharmony within
  the psychic structure as our basic fact,
  understanding becomes easier.

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ANNA FREUDS PSYCHOANALYTIC VIEWS

• It may be his parents who need help and guidance
  so as to be able to bear with him. There are few
  situations in life which are more difficult to
  cope with than an adolescent son or daughter
  during the attempt to liberate themselves.

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Piagets Stages of Cognitive Development
SENSORY MOTOR
object permanence
0 - 2 YEARS
egocentrism
PREOPERATIONAL
symbol development
2 - 6 YEARS
concepts can be manipulated
CONCRETE
OPERATIONAL
conservation
7 - 12 YEARS
FORMAL
test abstract hypothesis
OPERATIONS
manipulate symbolic concepts
12 YEARS
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Piagets Cognitive Developmental Views
With the advent of formal intelligence, thinking
takes wings, and it is not surprising that at
first this unexpected power is both used and
abused
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Piagets Cognitive Developmental Views
It is the metaphysical age par excellence the
self is strong enough to reconstruct the
universe and big enough to incorporate it
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Piagets Cognitive Developmental Views
The life plan of young girls is more closely
linked to personal relationships, and their
hypothetico-deductive systems take on the form
more of a hierarchy of affective values than of a
theoretical systemtheir life plan is more
concerned with people.
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Piagets Cognitive Developmental Views
Reason, which expresses the highest forms
of equilibrium, reunites intelligence and
affectivity
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Cognitive Development
Personality Development
The upholding of a steady equilibrium during
the adolescent process is in itself abnormal
FORMAL
OPERATIONS
12 YEARS
test abstract hypothesis
manipulate symbolic concepts