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 Describe adolescence in at least three sentences.
 What is the difference between the imaginary
audience and the personal fable?
 What is the difference between Preconvential Morality
and Conventional Morality?
 Describe the fifth and sixth stage of Erikson’s
Psychosocial Development.
 Adolescence is the period of life from about age 13 to
the early 20s—basically your teen years—during which
your physical development reaches completion.
 Puberty is the four year period typically during your
teens in which you undergo significant physical
changes .
 Body hair, muscles, deepening voices, and growth
spurts occur during puberty.
 Adolescents engage in two kinds of egocentric
thinking, called the imaginary audience and the
personal fable.
 Imaginary audience is the belief that everyone is
focusing in on your every move, decision, and thought.
Basically it is a result of being extremely selfconscious.
 Personal fable is the belief that you are completely
unique from everyone else.
 This includes the common belief that you are
invincible to harm.
 Developmental psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg proposed
three levels of moral development.
 First Level-Preconventional Morality-The consequences
that follow determine morality. Ex: If I get a sucker I must
have done something good!
 Second Level-Conventional Morality-conformity to rules or
laws is morally correct. Ex: If I follow the speed limit signs,
I am being a good citizen.
 Third Level-Postconventional Morality-The individual
determines on their own what is morally correct. Ex: I will
not snitch on my friend because he/she—in my opinion—
did nothing wrong.
 In terms of Erikson’s stages of psychosocial
development, the fifth stage—identity vs. role
confusion—is usually the first stage to take place
during adolescence.
 During the identity vs. role confusion stage, teens
ultimately achieve some sense of self in contrast to all
the roles, values, and futures thrown at them and
exposed to them.
 Studies have shown that conflict with parents may
actually encourage teen independence.
 Parents and their children may spar about minor
issues like clothing and hair, but they might be
shocked that they share major moral beliefs.
 Moreover, it has been proven that arguments with
parents allow students to overcome peer pressure
better.
 Erikson claims that teens who are able to claim their
identity are better suited to deal with and overcome
peer pressure in the form of gangs, drugs, and alcohol.
 Adulthood begins in the early twenties.
 Erikson’s sixth stage—intimacy vs. isolation—occurs
when a young adult must establish an intimate
relationship, usually with a mate.
 Young adults, according to Erikson must be able to
trust, share, and care with and for their intimate
partner.
 However, some young adults fail to establish this trust
in another and end up lonely, have shallow
relationships, and sometimes constantly have divorces.