Adolescence is a period of human development from birth to death, with three main stages: early adolescence (10-13 years), middle adolescence (14-17 years), and late adolescence/young adulthood (18-21 years and beyond). These stages include intersections between the adolescent developmental stage and common personality trait taxonomies. Developing an independent identity during adolescence requires experimenting with new relationships and activities while gaining space from parents.
Adolescent psychology is the study and delivery of various models or theories that place adolescence in a period of human development from birth to death. Most of these are “stage” models, with each stage having its own unique mental characteristics. Mental characteristics that develop during adolescence include improved abstract thinking, dating relationships, self-concept and self-esteem, and changes in physical, cognitive, and socioemotional/psychosocial domains.
Physical changes associated with puberty are triggered by hormones, while changes in self-concept and self-esteem occur during adolescence. Erikson’s fifth psychosocial task of identity versus role confusion and Marcia’s four identity statuses are discussed.
Adolescence is divided into three periods: early (ages 12-14), middle (ages 15-17), and late (ages 18-21). Some teens will develop faster in one task than others, while others will develop faster in one task. Middle and high school adolescents can be categorized into five broad areas: moving toward independence, future interests, and future interests.
📹 8 Stages of Development by Erik Erikson
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What are the 3 main components to adolescent cognitive development?
Adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18 demonstrate a capacity for sophisticated cognitive processes, encompassing abstract thinking, reasoning from established principles, conceptualization of novel ideas or inquiries, consideration of diverse perspectives, and evaluation or debate of opinions.
How many stages of personal development are there?
The seven stages of personal development are awareness, acceptance, responsibility, self-discovery, self-improvement, self-actualization, and transcendence. These stages help individuals achieve inner change and spiritual enlightenment by increasing self-awareness, understanding, and appreciation of life. By becoming aware of thoughts and feelings, taking responsibility for decisions, and practicing spiritual development, individuals gain deeper insight into themselves and their relationship with the world.
The three stages of personal growth are awareness, which involves recognizing thoughts and feelings, responsibility, which involves taking ownership of decisions and actions, and self-actualization, which involves setting goals and engaging in habits that lead to personal growth.
What are the 3 aspects of personal development?
Personal development is a continuous process of self-improvement that involves making changes in all aspects of life. It consists of three main aspects: physical, mental, and emotional. Physical development focuses on an individual’s health, fitness, and overall well-being. Mental development involves knowledge acquisition, critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication abilities. Emotional development focuses on an individual’s self-worth and understanding of situations, often involving counseling or gaining perspectives from others.
What are the key stages of adolescence?
Adolescence is a crucial period in a child’s life, marked by physical, behavioral, cognitive, emotional, and social developmental changes. It is characterized by three primary stages: early adolescence (10-13 years), middle adolescence (14-17 years), and late adolescence/young adulthood (18-21 years and beyond). In early adolescence, puberty begins, while in middle adolescence, both males and females continue puberty changes. The final stage is late adolescence/young adulthood (18-21 years and beyond).
What are the 3 developmental levels?
This activity discusses the importance of evaluating growth and development in a patient’s physical examination, particularly in infancy, toddlerhood, childhood (ages three to eleven), and adolescence or teenage (ages 12 to 18). It emphasizes the role of the interprofessional team in assessing children for growth and developmental delays, highlighting the factors affecting growth and development, methods for growth measurements, and standard screening tools for developmental assessment. Early recognition of growth or developmental failure aids in effective intervention in managing a patient’s problem.
What are the three main changes during adolescence?
Adolescence is typified by three principal categories: physical, emotional, and secondary sexual changes. These changes can manifest in a teenager or adolescent and may also impact the development of girls. Furthermore, the natural vegetation observed in these three broad categories exhibits notable variation.
What is the adolescence stage of personal development?
Adolescence is a crucial period for young people as they navigate puberty, develop new cognitive skills, and gain independence from their parents. This period presents unique challenges for treating diseases and promoting health. Clinical interactions with adolescents should consider the dynamic background of development, as issues around managing chronic illness can differ between young individuals with different cognitive abilities. For instance, a 13-year-old boy in early puberty with poorly developed abstract thinking may face different challenges compared to a 16-year-old girl with mature adult cognitive skills.
What are the three stages of individual development?
Erikson’s stages of development are not limited to specific ages; rather, they encompass the entire lifespan, from childhood to adulthood. Each stage presents an opportunity to enhance positive attributes such as a secure environment, regular access to affection, and food.
What are the 3 stages of theory development?
Speculative explanations posit hypotheses regarding the occurrence of events; descriptive data provide factual information about the state of affairs; and constructive revisions entail a re-evaluation of existing theories in light of ongoing research.
What are the three 3 types of development?
Development encompasses the physical, cognitive, and psychosocial aspects of human life throughout the lifespan. Physical development involves changes in the bo
dy and brain, senses, motor skills, and health and wellness. Cognitive development involves learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity. Psychosocial development involves emotions, personality, and social relationships. Physical development is interrelated to cognitive development, which involves learning, attention, memory, language, thinking, reasoning, and creativity.
It also includes changes in children’s motor skills, coordination, and coordination in sports. Physical development also includes puberty, sexual health, fertility, menopause, changes in senses, and healthy habits with nutrition and exercise. These domains are interconnected and play a crucial role in shaping human growth and development.
What are the three stages of adolescent development?
Adolescence is a period from puberty to adulthood, divided into three stages: early adolescence (ages 11-14), middle adolescence (15-17), and late adolescence (18-21). It involves physiological growth, seven intellectual, psychological, and social developmental tasks, and aims to form one’s identity and prepare for adulthood. Physical development, such as puberty, is complete by mid-adolescence, and most children are at or close to adult height and weight. Intellectual development is also crucial, as young teens often perceive the world in concrete terms, limiting their ability to consider long-term consequences.
📹 Adolescence: Crash Course Psychology #20
In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank has a look at that oh-so-troublesome time in everyone’s life: Adolescence!
My grandfather gave me some good advice: “Life is only going to get harder the older you get, it doesn’t get easier, you can just choose to keep walking forward. Don’t let them see how they affect you, keep moving forward.” This advice has helped me through so many hard times and dips into my depression. Even if you’re just going through the motions, just don’t give up.
Am I the only one still laughing about Erik Erikson? The reason being, if your last name ends with ‘son’ normally, the definition includes Son Of (first part of last name). In Erikson’s case, the Son of Erik. Which makes me laugh because his first name is Erik. (Don’t you laugh at me, my brain is still developing!)
Finding out your not straight and rejecting religion in teen years, not finding love and still living with parents in twenties. While parents are filled with regret that I even exist as who I am, and not taking very good opportunities like that government job as a translator. So fitting to charts should make me feel better?
You know the funny thing is how people remember you in those “prime” years of adolescence and they believe you’re still gonna be the same old, stuck up princess who cried for coming in second on your unit test. I used to be a nerd back in school and I’m still a scholar now in college but I hardly seem to care about who ranks first or second. But my former classmates still think I’m a nerd and that I live my life in front of books and wikipedia xD Little do they know there’s youtube and music and movies and shows and hot guys and manga and food! yes, lots and lots of food and so much more 😛 Guess their psychological development seems to have stopped. Or they’re projecting their identity and role confusion crisis onto me 😛
I strongly object to the implication that a “healthy” intimate relationship is the determining variable for mental health in young adulthood. It’s very possible to find fulfillment in other social arrangements, and to fail to find fulfillment generally when that area of life is satisfied. Even if singleness and the conditions you identify do coexist, that need not imply a causal relationship. I’ve discouraged the few people who’ve tried to get close to me in that way mainly because isolation provides me with the best venue in which to struggle with my life situation and because I wouldn’t want to render someone emotionally dependent on me and then slip into one of my frequent depressive episodes. I’m single because I’m depressed, not the other way around!
It’s somehow weird… My friends tell me, that I seem to live behind a wall and that they still don’t know much about me. I have normal to higher self-esteem, so I can stand up for myself and I love to discuss, but I don’t really let people near. It’s really hard to open up for me (I’m anonymous here, so I don’t care) and I just don’t know how to talk about my feelings. Sometimes, I can’t even tell people why I am sad. It’s so awful! I really want to, but there’s something stopping me and I don’t know what it is.
I love Crash Course, I hardly have time to keep up with all articles but I really appreciate the knowledge you guys give to the public. “In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.” Wanted to say thank you for putting the hard work and giving us, the public, great knowledge and amazing animation. I come here to learn both in design and what you have to teach.
Does this mean it’s “impossible” for psychology bachelor students to comprehend human development throughout life stages, because they are still young after all? I was a psychology student. Planning to continue a post-graduate study next year, so I tried relearning some of the stuffs. And the more I read about adolescence, I started wondering whether I had difficulties on processing some psychology theories because back then I was lacking of the life perspectives? Perhaps I could say the way I understood psychology back then was mostly based on my personal experience and my peers. Oh, dear God. At least I realize it now lol
Dementia — what the person who titled this article has. It’s about the stages of development after childhood, not Adolescence. Otherwise, this was great. I would like to see more about how people change later in life — after 60. I perceive cognitive changes that I suspect have to do with hormonal changes but I don’t know for sure. The period after your 50s is possibly an anti-adolescence — and who wouldn’t sign on for that — but it would be nice to have an objective opinion.
Alzheimer’s is really scary. My grandfather, one of my favorite people in the world and my first father figure, is making the very painful decline into the memory loss stage. He’ll start driving and forget where he is or he’ll be talking to my grandmother and be totally unable to remember the names of us grandkids. He knows who he means but the memory of the names is just sort of…gone. It is entirely likely that the visit he and my grandmother made this summer for my graduation is the last visit they’ll make and it really hurts to know that it might not be too long before I call and he won’t know who I am. Or he’ll be stuck in some memory of when I’m little bitty and my mom and I lived with them. Dementia is pretty sucky but Alzheimer’s….Alzheimer’s is absolutely terrifying to watch happen.
I never really had an “Identity crisis” type thing. In fact one of my many motto’s since before I was 10 has always been “I am who I am and not what you make of me” AKA It does not mater how I appear to others as I will always be the same person as I always have been. (more complex but simplified for this comment)
Here’s to all us adolescence I am 11. {Soon to be 12} We are awesome! We are for one the planet’s future. { yeah until we too in turn die} We may never be ready to die but {depending on how old we are when we die} we will have put together another generation. Never be afraid to die. Or fail. Because where ee go wrong others may benefit. I end my speech with these humble words..We are adolescence yes but if we fail we should take off again, because when we fail we never truly fail we Succeed.
Great episode as always, just one thing that’s wrong: we CURRENTLY cannot stop or reverse the process of aging, but there has been a lot of research and some good developments on the field. We should be seeing new solutions to extend our lifespan and give us quality of life in our later decades popping up throughout the century, until we finally get to the point of reversing aging entirely! 🙂
Hank you disappoited me for the first time. With a article titled “Adolescence” I expected a whole article about the subject. Instead I watched a article about Psychological Development. I thought there would be 3, 4 or 5 articles about Psychological Development, each one focusing on a different period of life.
I do have the effect living in part teens and most young adult, learning to know who I am as a person created by God and role confusion, what can I contribute to life and young adult stage, loving from others, really is difficult to live, since I have more ideas of isolation, leading to depression, anxiety and thoughts of suicide but in the end, from my idea I should’ve learned, I now know who I am. However, what can I contribute and who understands my idea being the contribution to success,the challenge remains high of the idea keeping young adult and teen thoughts until I reach 30. Those who live and simply live childish, that’s their problem and their contribution, well, lets just say, their life will be a living hell of social chaos.
Tbh im 16 and i dont really feel like i have any group i belong to. Hobby wise ive done the same stuff I’ve always done like drawing and working out but i dont really have friends who do the same things. I have a lot of friends but i dont consider anyone i know to be close to me. Idk i try but i never really am accepted anywhere, people dont bully me its just im always on my own even if i dont try to be. And i dont consider myself a loner either cause im an extrovert.
What is the major “struggle” most Adolescents battle with… according to Eric Erikson ?Give an example of Stage 5 Adolescence struggle between identity and role confusionDefine emerging adulthoodWhat Census Statistic was used suggest that financial status can impact development name 3 things a person can or should be able to accomplish by the Middle adulthood stage of developmentWhat moods and emotions can the lack of Middle adulthood accomplishments create in peopleWhat were two aspects of a person who is experiencing integrity in the Late adulthood stage of development? What are two aspects of a persons character who are experiencing despair in the Late
This really helped clear things up. The issue of identity vs. role confusion explains why there are so many freshman trying to gain popularity by standing out just enough while also being careful not to be be left out. It is my sister’s freshman year and she used to hang out with this one group but then decided she didn’t want to be like them (I was proud of her) so she picked another group (just as bad, but different). High schoolers seem to switch what they are interested and who they hang out with a lot up until senior year when their list of school clubs shortens to only a couple and they start to figure out what they are interested in and what makes them who they are.
I don’t want to fit into an identity though. That’s my problem. I don’t want to belong to people or things. i dont want to be predictable or placed at a job or a school I can’t get out of or run from if i need. I need my own thing. my own place. I don’t want to be around people who tell me to be something. If I want to wear fuzzy socks and sneakers with a leather jacket and pink hair while also seemingly being a jock SUE ME. But I am being myself. I have that down. What bugs me is that I have to figure out what job I will do. and it may take college which ties me down. I just want to be me and be happy. That’s my problem is that the world won’t let me. I have good grades I should be going to college. I have multiple things i could do I just pick one and I’m set. But the thing is I don’t want to. I know I’ll change. I change by the minute. my emotions. my hobbies. everything. I can’t be set in stone. someone help me what do i do with myself? there is no job that allows for constantly changing myself I feel hopeless. But i dont want to I shouldn’t. But i do.
Great series so far. There’s a lot of concepts covered yet nothing is to watered down 🙂 Still waiting on the article that will educate people about mental disorders — in particular, the differences between Schizophrenia and Multiple Personality Disorder and that OCD is not the same as OCPD which it is often mistaken for, as well as other misconceptions about mental illnesses.
@ 0:30 Yes; they did do “Saturday detentions” at my public high school (and high schools within the district) as punishment 20 years ago–and still do know. Known as “Saturday school”. And are 3 hours long. Often, students may leave 1 hour early if they pick up trash for 30 minutes toward the end (and if they have behaved well). This punishment is worse than the “hourly detention” option after-school on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday— such as for repeated number of class truancies (after detentions have been given), or for repeated offenses (after detentions have been assigned), or for a more serious offense or offenses; or for failing to show up for assigned detentions without a good reason, or for “willful defiance”.
Thanks. You go beyond adolescence and, as always, bring lots of ideas to the table. For insight into the midlife crisis, I enjoyed Bryan Magee’s Confessions of a Philosopher. (Now in his mid-80s and retired from broadcasting (I believe), Magee gets my vote for world’s most intelligent interviewer, immensely cultivated and effortlessly articulate) More on how the adolescent brain changes? Why the impulsiveness, the risk-taking? Erick Wilberding Author, Teach like Socrates
I volunteered in a nursing home in high school that specialized in caring for people with alzheimers & dementia. I remember one of my first times there I spent chatting with a lady who must have told me her life story about 7 or 8 times. It was sad, because she didn’t know that she was doing it. Kind of scary to think that you’d eventually reach a point where you didn’t realize your memory was deteriorating. Going back was always interesting, though, because some of the people there would recognize me (if not by name, then they’d at least remember my face and know that they knew me somehow), but with others, I was a completely new person every single time.
I love this series and this is a great article, but it’s not so much about adolescence but all development beyond childhood. A whole article on adolescence could have been done, possibly with emerging adulthood added at the end with this title and framing. Instead this is a article with that framing and great content on adolescent – adult development and Erikson. Thank you Hank btw, this is a great CrashCourse series.
Even though I’m not yet a teen I still worry about problems that are further up the table, like having a group of friends yet still being an individual or being productive and doing something with my life. While sometimes I worry about the future with these things I still also have those worries in my present life, so the table shown definitely oversimplified everything.
They do saturday detention. I had one because I didn’t do my math homework, not that I didn’t do any of it either, just one, not like it was worth much. Also I’m really glad to have watched this. Identity was always a nebulous thing you shouldn’t touch, but now you’ve explained it in psychological terms. Thanks for letting me understand the world, and an extremely important part of it at that, better. Not that my understanding is complete, but it’s a good start 🙂
Not neccesarily pre-determined, but it does show that changes in our environment does force us into new moral struggles. Perfectly natural of course, and we should follow that natural way. If you are dealing with an early issue, it may change if you get some motivation to change your environment. Not too much introspection.
In Alberta, Canada in 1997ish, we had Saturday morning detentions at the High School for one year until they realized it was against the law because the kids and teachers were putting in more than a 44 hour work week. I had to attend a couple of these super awesome sessions, they were nothing like the movie and more like a prison program. Still didn’t deter me from cutting class or any of the things that would get you sent to said punishment either.
But problem solving and flexibility does not have to slow down as people get older, and practicing has an impact. Some of Erickson’s ideas fly in the face of the idea of neuroplasticity (not to mention the basis on which websites like Lumosity are built), but of course only to a point. While I test out only slightly above average for the 30-34 age group (with memory and attention closer to average than problem solving and flexibility, and my scores there have been improving over a year of doing Lumosity almost every morning) I test out in the 90th percentile in my own age group (60-64, again started in the low 80th percentile, so training is having an impact). The idea of activity training yourself to strive to maintain or increase fluid intelligence as you age may make Erickson’s older years stratifications less apt. In any case as you guys like to say; think complexly, and in intro psych courses it’s hard to do that, hard to represent the variability that is masked by these “stage” systems of intellect, growth and emphasis.
I was terrified as a teenager and abused by the public school system and its “priorities.” My mind was split between what I wanted and what I could have. I listened to the other people and thought I was being punished for something. Many people reminded me that I was going to be a complete failure in life and to get used to McDonalds, a place I was indirectly fired from for being too slow. Go self-esteem! At least my school finally got the A+ program after I’d left. To think, I could have had appropriate employment instead of entering into the army where the stars wanted to tell me how spoiled I was and where everyone attacked me because I couldn’t do my job. They could have reclassed me or something. I think they need to introduce that into the system, reclassing job failures. Yeah… I loved those bicycle rides in the wee hours of the morning when I was a teenager though. That is, until winter came. I got very angry. I think our stars are spoiled personally. I’ll split them.
I wouldn’t say I’ve had a stroke but I did have a blood vessel burst in my brain resulting in a clot that was promptly removed following surgery to remove a brain tumor that part of is still there and all though i rarely drink alcohol I did go through a period of drinking 6-12 beers each and every day for nearly 15 years. So I guess my chances of getting dimentia are very high based on that and that dementia is also in the family. I’m looking forward to reducing my movie collection to just one or two as they will then be new to me each and every time as per my limited understanding of what dementia is and how it works
As someone who’s currently 19 and still living with his parents and only just got his first job a couple weeks ago, yes, it really is that shitty of a time to be stuck between. Especially in the US where they hype up being 18 as some big accomplishment but you can’t do any of the fun stuff (legally anyway) until you’re 21, which is grade-a bullshit.
I began to watch this article, but after he mentioned the Breakfast Club, I thought to myself, “Wait a second me, you’ve never seen the Breakfast Club. Yes you know what it’s roughly about, but you can’t experience something in full without seeing it.” So I decided that I would hit up my Netflix and watch those flick, and let me just say, great film, 10/10. I would say SEE the Breakfast Club.
Fluid Intelligence… a subject connected to adolescence! YES! Wait…now we’re talking about dementia and Alzheimer’s… for the rest of the article… Um… I really, honestly try not to be hypercritical. But could we please get a Crash Course article dedicated to -adolescent psychology-? Preferably with separate articles that address the psychological developments experienced in early, middle, and late adulthood?
In fluid vs. crystallized intelligence, are there ways to improve or maintain fluid intelligence? I’m in my early twenties and I’ve recently been told that I have high levels of fluid intelligence and that’s why I’m good at my job. In the interest of bettering myself as a person (and keeping my job) how do I keep this with age? Crystallized intelligence I understand – I already spend my commutes studying Arabic, doing logic puzzles, reviewing vocabulary – but fluid intelligence is something I’m less familiar with.
Wonderful full spectrum brain development study. My only comment is about the future breakfast club sequel and some predictions. Logically we can conclude one of the three men were successful(money$) one has a family(legacy),the other will become spiritual/religious, & most likely one the women will have an ideal feminist lifestyle while the other will plan the get together. I’ll let you decide who fills which role.
Interesting information on fluid and crystallized intelligence, but where does plasticity come in? The loss of fluidity in adulthood might be overstated given what we’re learning about plasticity. From my experience, certain thinking processes have become more nimble, not less, while memorization skills have become harder (or at least less interesting).
According to the definition of Fluid & Crystillzed Intelligence, I don’t really lose my fuild intelligence if I experienced it and so, transform it in Crystalizzed Intelligence. In that case, if I have experienced all Fuild Intelligence, at this precise moment I got only Crystalizzed Intelligence. So, theoretically, Fluid Intelligence is something that can not really decrease and be kept forever (with healthy cells).
I may not be a pro but i think there’s an error there. Hank, you said Crystallized intelligence bases itself on facts and stuff. But facts dont exist. In any case it should had been perceptual facts, the things one believes to be facts about one’s environment. Saying just facts is misleading as most would think of facts as something objective and completely miss the subjective ones.
I would like to ask if still you think there is a constant in your personality, something that makes you truely you ?… I’m experiencing something right now, some may call it depression, where I have stop being myself and as of now I’m starting to wonder if i ever had a true personality or if I could have been a poser all my life. Liking what other people might like to the point where I dont know what I LIKE anymore… It could very well be a part of depression but it truely doesnt seem like it.
Oh man I really want to see that movie: breakfast club the midlife crisis they meet for a highschool reunion and immediatly despise each other out of envy and disgust for each others life choices maybe bender bought a tacky car…. why don’t they ever make the good sequels But no we get another Cars movie
I feel mired in an identity crisis in my thirties – my sons are two and a half and all I do all day is housework and childcare. I feel like a useless piece of society, never applying my mind to interesting problems anymore, at least on bad days. I have a lot of education, I’m a scientist and artist and musician, but now I’m really only important to two people. I have to work to put my value in that instead of what I create or accomplish. I’ve just depressed myself. Oops.
I knew who and what i was probably in grade 10, moved on to the intimacy, in grade 11 and 12, sadly not many others are at that stage, so a lot of heartache. all else fails Plasma research continues. of course you people don’t want to hear shit from a stranger so i’m going to throw confetti at you and skip away calling it a night.
it seems to me with fluid and crystallized intelligence, the cause of the decline of fluid intelligence after adolescence is due to the increase in crystallized intelligence. effectively instead of your brain needing to react quickly and abstractly you are now relying more and more upon a library of experience, you may take longer to think about problems but its likely that you will arrive at the correct answer then the fast answer. just my thoughts
Security in belonging to a group? Not when you were bullied even outside school. Btw. nice articles, a fast recap of all the stuff I read elsewhere (and also something new), packed in an attractive format. Maybe a little hard to swallow when you watch more episodes per day, but still fine. And yes, people are changing, but for the better or worse? Who decides and by which criteria? Why am I doing this again? Writing and imagining what people think? Becouse I know they they think very shallow. I tried to talk about my thoughts with friends, the discussion quickly slipped in another direction and became dull. I want to know not only what, but also why people think what they think, what is behind their opinions and also want to listen. But even when I get somebody to talk, I feel that “forced” responses are “fake”, not real and the answers I get are not honest. Sometimes the arguments are just logical fallacies, in some topics this is extreme (not gonna start that debate again)…. Now tonight I will definitely not get a good sleep, insted will think enlessly about my posts… Oh and I do not contribute to society at all, my job is a nice “fill in time” so I do not have to think much (and it also pays well)… I do not live, I just exist, from day to day. And I know what awaits me – dissapointment about my life (I like to fool myself that it has yet to come), about the tiny fraction of existence that I experienced in this vast universe of space and time without being of any use to me or anybody else.
The whole role vs identity thing is utterly insane for me. I have no idea about any of this stuff. For me it’s utter shenanigans. My struggles have always been and probably always will be competence vs inferiority cuz that actually matters. Hell, the most difficult problems I’ve come across in philosophy is the question, “who are you?” because the only answer I can give something lame like: gamer, bundle of thoughts and memories, or i’m me. I never bother with the identity vs role struggle. It makes no sense to me.
I wonder how much of adolescence is a culturally determined social construct and how much of it is pure biology (i.e. nature versus nurture). For instance, has the concept changed significantly over time and before the modern era did it even exist at all or wasn’t really meaningful enough to study? For example, were adolescents of the late 19th and early 20th centuries when it was pretty commonplace for those who we now consider to be either children or vulnerable young adults still too young to work in factories damaged mentally by their experiences and, if not, why not? Surely the older children/younger adults of bygone eras had the same needs, etc. as their modern counterparts so why should it have been different?
I noticed Hank mentioned “Western Psychology” a few times. I know a YT comment response probably wouldn’t do it justice, but can someone describe, briefly, what “Eastern Psychology” would entail and how it would be different? Sadly, I have a degree in Psychology and have never really heard someone differentiate the two like that. I’m assuming it has something to do with individualistic vs. collectivist societies?
I’m 25 and really struggling with trying to stay motivated to go to work everyday even though I don’t make a living wage, and to stay motivated to work on my comics. I feel like I haven’t done anything with my life, and I recently gained this desire to learn how to sing……lol Probably due to getting really into music as it distracts me while at work from the fact that I hate being there.
What stage do you generally experience an existential crisis because I feel like that should be an adult thing but on the internet I mostly see teens and young adults experiencing this (myself included). And is an existential crisis usually tied up in the productivity vs. stagnation crisis? And why do Quarter Life Crisis happen if you haven’t even really started your life yet?
5:20 What is it with nostalgia and milkshakes? One of my fondest childhood memories is visiting my grandpa at his store, then accompanying him and a few of his fellow small-town businessmen friends to a main street diner for coffee break. I would always get a vanilla milkshake. To this day, I search for a vanilla milkshake that tastes as good as the ones I used to get at that diner, but none can measure up.
Would fluid intelligence, since it’s independent of past experiences or knowlodge, be related to bias? So would that mean that teenagers aren’t as biased as adults? I feel like teens (some at my school anyway) are pretty biased. Well, I guess everyone is biased to some extent and teens have the internal and external pressure to find out who they are.
My high school did Saturday detention, but I don’t think they do now. The entire district has gotten away from the idea of detention or punishment at all. Instead, they tend to lean on therapy sessions with the guidance department and more positive themes within the school as a whole. Personally, I’d rather just take the detention than have to deal with weeks of visits with a counselor, especially if I get to take that detention with a young Judd Nelson – yumm!
I don’t think that the title is misleading because a huge part of adolescence is the transition to adulthood and how that affects us. For example, an older person might be more likely to look back on their life with regret if they did things as a teenager that affected their life choices (like dropping out of high school).
Personally, I think fluid intelligence is far more important. Think of it like this: you need fluid intelligence to be a genius, and anyone who’s read John’s book An Abundance Of Katharines knows, a genius is not someone who can just list facts or is able to memorize 11 languages before they graduate from high school. A genius is someone who, like Einstein or Collin Singleton, can figure out stuff like the theory, not just learn from what has already been discovered. People who have very good crystalized intelligence are not geniuses, they’re just prodigies. If you did not understand this comment or did not get all the references I suggest you go back and actually read John green’s books, and by his books I mean read at least one that’s not The Fault In Our Stars. As for me, I have read: The Fault In Our Stars, Paper Towns, Looking For Alaska(my personal fav), An Abundance of Katherines, and as I’m typing this I’m grapping my kindle from my bag to begin Will Grayson, Will Grayson because I bought it already.
The high school I went to we had a sort of “Saturday detention”, it was called Saturday school and you had to go if you had more than one unexcused absence or were caught skipping school/class. You didn’t sleep, eat, drink (except for the 5-minute breaks we had every hour), read anything but a normal book. You either did homework or read a book. And you were there from 8:00 in the morning to 1:00 in the afternoon. You had to put your phone in a box after you turn it off. And if you were kicked out of it, you had to come back next Saturday and if you have to go you have to pay a $13.00 fee.