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Laurence Steinberg

Auteur de Adolescence

18 oeuvres 464 utilisateurs 2 critiques

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Laurence Steinberg is the author of the leading textbook on adolescence, more than 350 scholarly articles, and a dozen books. He is a regular guest on NPR and has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Psychology Today.
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Importance of self-regulation and self-control. The age of puberty is creeping downwards, documentable from things like when girls develop breasts and get their period and when boys' voice starts to crack. The reason is not better health, rather lack of sleep, more body fat, more light exposure that triggers melotonin production, various chemicals. For boys this development is not necessarily bad, but for girls it is, since when they mature physically before mentally and emotionally, they will often orientate towards older peers without being able to handle the corresponding challenges. A key is that the pre-frontal cortex, which handles self regulation and control do not develop earlier. The brain does develop substantially is adolescence, though, so there may be much to gain from interventions and guidance in this period. Perhaps by exploiting that the adolescent brain is particularly tuned to pleasure (which may be why memories from that period are so vivid)? Much in the book's later parts is common sense advice, but overall it is an interesting read.… (plus d'informations)
 
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ohernaes | Apr 30, 2015 |
This is the older of my two developmental psychology textbooks. I liked it slightly better of the two- it had more interesting studies, as I remember. I liked both of them though- psych textbooks are among the best textbooks in terms of interesting materials. They also both had a lot of different material, interestingly.
 
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the1butterfly | Mar 10, 2008 |

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