changes in adolescence

 changes in adolescence

    Adolescence is the transition period between childhood and adulthood. It includes some big changes, both in the body and in the way a young person relates to the world.

Physical changes

    Puberty marks the beginning of very notable biological changes such as sexual maturity or fertility. These changes are determined by the activation and production of various hormones, and the development of the sexual organs.During this stage, children often begin to grow faster. Including hair growth in the armpits and genital area, breast development in females, and enlarged testicles in males.

 * In this change, a young person's self-concept can be profoundly affected by the physical changes they experience, for example, poor nutrition is a very important factor that can lead adolescents to suffer from eating disorders such as obesity, bulimia or anorexia, which influence directly on your self-esteem.

cognitive changes

    Two types of brain networks develop in the adolescent brain: the social-emotional network that allows them to interact with their peers and other people, and the cognitive control network that allows them to progressively control their emotional impulses.

Adolescence is the stage of development where formal cognitive operations are manifested, this capacity allows elaborate abstract thinking, deductive hypothetical reasoning (develop hypotheses and test them) and also information processing becomes more elaborate allowing the adolescent to deal with with more complex problems or decisions.

moral reasoning in adolescence

Moral reasoning can be defined as "the value judgment we make in certain situations in which a certain option must be taken."

During childhood, children at the pre-conventional level abide by the rules based on external obedience in which adults set the rules and children abide by them for fear of being punished.

Although many adolescents will continue at this level, we will also find adolescents who enter a more advanced moral level before puberty, which is known as the conventional level.

This level is characterized because the value judgments are going to be based on the expectations of the social group and the reasons for following the norms have their meaning in the approval of the members of the group and not in the adults as in the previous level.

Argument

    First of all, moral reasoning is closely linked based on the cognitive development of the adolescent stage thanks to the ability to think abstractly, they care about and understand justice and social welfare, thus the ability to adopt various perspectives will increase concern for the opinion of others. others and the consequences of their actions.

I also think that the cognitive is closely linked to the physical change of the adolescent, since at that moment they get carried away by the beauty stereotypes that society instills in such a way, they begin to change their behavior and way of thinking, since they think that If they don't look the way society wants, they won't be accepted.

Bibliografia:

AulaFacil. (2013). Razonamiento Moral - Desarrollo del Adolescente. www.aulafacil.com. https://www.aulafacil.com/cursos/educacion/desarrollo-del-adolescente/razonamiento-moral-l6146

Etapas de la adolescencia. (s. f.). HealthyChildren.org. https://www.healthychildren.org/Spanish/ages-stages/teen/Paginas/Stages-of-Adolescence.aspx#:~:text=Durante%20esta%20etapa%2C%20los%20ni%C3%B1os,los%20test%C3%ADculos%20en%20los%20varones.