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Psychological Aspects MODULE-2
Dimension of Physical
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easily get excited and explodes emotionally instead of trying to control his
feelings; however, in later years of adolescence stage he is able to control his
feelings and becomes emotionally stable. In addition, the child is very much
concerned about his self-consciousness, self-respect and personal pride. For
example, in this phase they may get embarrassed by scolding by their parents in
front of others.

Social changes: Adolescents change their relationship with the family. They
separate themselves from their parents. The adolescent gives importance to the Note
group or circle of his/her friends and becomes loyal to them rather than their
parents. It can be said that they develop the strong emotional attachment and
trust for their group and may have conflicts with their parents. Apart from this
adolescents want to feel that they are independent; therefore, they don’t want to
take any help from their parents to solve their problems. Additionally, she/he
wants acceptance rather than rejection in their peer group. At the end of this
stage a child is able to behave according to the norms of the society as he may
perceive the difference between right and wrong.

Cognitive changes: Adolescents thinking becomes abstract. Now they can think
over an issue with logic. Sometimes they analyze the things critically, i.e., how
things are and how they may be, so that they question everything and their parents
feel that their child questions everything just for the sake of argument. In this
stage they become rational. They develop the reasoning power and interpret
everything in the environment in their own way. This is clearly seen in the
adolescent’s increased interest in thinking about interpersonal relationship,
politics, philosophy, religion and morality, that involve such abstract concepts
as friendship, faith, democracy, fairness and honesty. They have strong likings
and disliking for certain events. For example, if the boy/girl has a strong liking
for special type of clothes s/he shall prefer to wear the same.

INTEXT QUESTIONS 6.1

1) Match the following

Column A Column B

a) Social changes i) Body

b) Emotional changes ii) Interpersonal relationship

c) Cognitive changes iii) Anger

d) Sexual changes iv) Mind

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