Similarities and Differences in Adolescent Development

Similarities and Differences in Adolescent Development

Doris Ingersoll

University of Phoenix

Psy/500

Dr. Milton West

January 10, 2013

Similarities and Differences in Adolescent Development

The experience in been an adolescence for males and females are a huge different. Physical development is different in males and females, the adolescence changes from a child to a young adult. The changes are between biological and social forces of becoming adolescence (Berk, 2010). Both males and females go through a physical transition to adulthood through puberty. During puberty the males and females go through a hormonal changes the girls begins to change two years early them the boys from middle childhood. The growth spurt is the first outward change the girls are more teller and fatter than boys and girls body develop enlarge hips and the boys become more muscle. During puberty, the boys develop more in motor performance than girls do because boys are slower in the development (Berk, 2010).

Another development both males and females adolescent go through is cognitive changes to improve in attention, inhibition, greater knowledge, and effective strategies. There is improvement cognitive self-regulation their thinking speed up and processing of capacity and there is some advance in metacognitionural (Berk, 2010). Adolescent have the ability to solve complex problems, reflect in their thinking, their thoughts, and think more about themselves and capacity to think about everyday life in thinking about possibilities prompts idealistic visions at probability. During adolescent period girl mature early and boys mature late and fit in least with his or her peers. Boys experience emotional and social difficulties but girl persevere into early adulthood. There is some experience in health issues in males and females in nutritional needs during adolescence, poor eating habits those factors to eating disorder (Berk, 2010).

There are factors that influence adolescent sexual attitudes and behavior. The attitude of adolescent in the United States have become more liberal, the more challenges with adolescents development of a positive sexual identity because of been a gay or a lesbian. In the United States it higher adolescent pregnancy, parenthood than in other industrialize nation and there is pervasive in adolescents with alcohol and drugs in industrialize nation. Many adolescent that is active in sex do not practice contraception consistently from partner to collaborate (Berk, 2005).

Becoming an adolescence is not the same in historical different across the time of the eras of development it will vary across cultures and over history. It depends on the cultural and historical context to progress the skill of development acquirement to become adolescence in some cultural environment (Crockett, 1997). Within the different historical eras of there are adolescents different generations live with different academic, political, and public health stressors, and there is more cultural diversity. Been adolescent are not the same across different historical eras of time. An adolescent played an important economic role in the family and community doing the preindustrial era. Adolescent labor contributed directly to the economic well-being of the family between 16th and 17th centuries. Adolescent started working at a young age and had to work alongside adults. In the development, status in colonial America adolescent are described during this period