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Running head: ADOLESCENCE AND DEVELOPMENT 1 Biological, Psychological, Cognitive, and Social Issues Related to Adolescent Development Eastern Gateway Gabriella Zuzan

ADOLESCENCE DEVELOPMENT 2 Adolescence and Developments Lifespan development in psychology is the study of human development from the time of conception to the time of death (Baltes, 1987). The primary goal of lifespan development is to examine and describe specific characteristics of different time frames as well as envision various dynamic interaction processes. Dynamic interaction processes involve the interconnection between a person’s past, present, and future (Kail& Cavanaugh, 2018). Although lifespan development is among the newest profound areas of psychology, it is deep-rooted to the developmental study and research of the elderly and children. According to Kail& Cavanaugh, (2018), the idea that early childhood development, which revolves around early family encounters, affects the later life of a child is deducible from centuries of childhood research, substantially from a behavioral viewpoint. Additionally, the psychological perception that genetic composition affects all aspects of life including personality, and brainpower has been essential to the biological and psychological understanding of human development for many years (Kail& Cavanaugh, 2018). Also, lifespan development recognizes and appreciates these early life effects and genetic compositions, but it also holds that other aspects of life such as cohort, culture, and contexts are equally compelling in shaping a person’s life. One central belief of lifespan development is that change is inevitable and it is always possible (Baltes, 1987). For this reason, people’s genetic makeup, as well as their early childhood, affects them, but they do not determine who they are (Baltes, 1987). Therefore, lifespan development essentially deals with age-related behavioral changes that people go through from the time they are conceived to when they die, and it takes

ADOLESCENCE DEVELOPMENT 3 six-time frames namely: parental; development and infancy, childhood, childhood (early and middle) adolescence, adulthood (first and middle), and old age. The purpose of this paper is to investigate a specific developmental lifespan time frame (youth), and its relevant psychological, cognitive, biological, and social issues and development. Adolescence is a time frame a person undergoes significant developmental changes at all levels including cognitive, behavioral, socially, and biologically. Simmons (2017) defines youth as a period of development between puberty and the ability of relative self-reliance. Therefore, biological events largely determine the beginning of adolescence, and social events define its end. This developmental stage is characterized by vast physical transformations, behavioral changes, advancement in cognitive skills, and hormonal changes, and it marks the point of transition from childhood to adulthood (Simmons, 2017). Being a transition from one- time frame to another, adolescence involves drastic changes in cognitive behavior, self- consciousness, and identity of oneself. According to Newman & Newman (2017), youth is a stage of major qualitative shifts in the way of thinking to a point where adolescents become more conscious of whom they are, of their feelings, and their character in general. Adolescents also tend to be more self-reflective because they gain the ability to be more introspective and are more willing to learn about their purpose in life than the prior stages of lifespan development (Billy & Grady, 1993). Also, adolescents become more capable of holding a variety of profound concepts, which helps them think more strategically than their previous time frame. Furthermore, an empirical study conducted by Newman & Newman (2017) on neural and cognitive development during adolescence shows that there are massive brain developments during adolescence, and modern brain imaging techniques have confirmed their research findings. More so, these brain imaging

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