PSY 203

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PSY 203

• Chapter 11
• Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence

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The Secular Trend

• Taller
• Heavier
• Puberty occurs at earlier age

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Body Image

• Linked to self-esteem
• Festingers (1954) social comparison theory
  suggests that we make judgments about ourselves
  based on comparing our attributes to those of
  others.
• Both boys and girls who spend more time comparing
  themselves to media are more likely to also have
  higher body dissatisfaction and higher depressive
  mood (van den Berg, Paxton, Keery, Guo,
  Neumark-Sztainer, 2007).
• http//www.epi.umn.edu/research/eat/publications.s
  htm
• Obesity
• Anorexia nervosa
• Bulimia nervosa

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Medias Influence on Female Body Image

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vhibyAJOSW8U
• http//barbie.everythinggirl.com/

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Medias Influence on Ideas of Masculinity

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v8CWMCt35oFYfeature
  related
• http//www.hasbro.com/gijoe/default.cfm?pagehisto
  rysection60s

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Adolescent Thought Processes

• Formal Operations Stage (Piaget)
• Using abstractions
• Hypothetical-deductive reasoning
• Imaginary audience
• Personal fable
• Risk taking