Key items covered this week:

Biological/physical development
1. Puberty and physical growth and change
2. Brain development
3. Body image and eating disorders
4. Sexual changes
Cognitive development
1. Piaget’s formal operational reasoning stage
2. Information processing
3. Adolescent egocentrism
  1. Imaginary audience
  2. Personal fable
Psychosocial development
1. Identity development
  1. Erikson’s identity vs. identity diffusion
  2. Marcia’s statuses of identity formation
  3. Impact of culture on identity development
  4. Racial/ethnic identity development
  5. Sexual identity development
  6. Gender identity development
2. Self-concept and self-esteem
3. Impact of family dynamics
  1. Adolescent-parent conflict
  2. Effect of parenting styles
  3. Parenting monitoring
4. Peer relationships
  1. Social comparison
  2. Cliques and crowds
  3. Conformity
  4. Dating
5. Sexuality
  1. Major factors influencing sexual activity
  2. Sexual orientation
6. Common problems
  1. Depression and suicide
  2. Eating disorders
  3. Alcohol and substance use
  4. Delinquency

Items to complete this week:

Watch the Module 8 Lectures I recorded
Watch the Module 8 Support Videos
Read the textbook chapters assigned with the Module
When you are ready, take the Module quiz. Remember you have one attempt, and it is not timed. You can drop your two lowest quiz scores throughout the semester.
Participate in the discussion post and post two replies. Remember to review the grading rubric in the syllabus. Like the quizzes, you can drop your two lowest discussion scores throughout the semester.

Plan ahead and get everything down by mid-week if possible so as not to miss the deadlines.

Remember, once the assignment deadline passes, those assignments will not be reopened (please review the lowest score drop policies mentioned above and detailed in the course syllabus.)

Enjoy and learn something new!

Professor Tuttle