A human infant is born with tactile qualities. The process of learning starts with childhood and ends with death. Learning, perception, motivation, judgment, and emotions helps in human growth. Children perceive things and learn with a sense of touch. Early intellectual growth arises first and foremost out of the child's physical interactions with objects in his environment. Children do not know to discriminate in objects, even in genders. As they grow, the child develops a sense of gender identity, thinks of himself or herself as a boy or girl, and begins to relate to others differently according to their gender. They learn how to dress and decide what to wear. For example, a 5-year-old boy will not feel comfortable if he is dressed in frock or other girl’s cloths that he knows. Gradually the child experiences sexual feelings and at the same time learns to respond to their stimuli. With this process of learning children are introduced in a wider stage, adolescence period, when he or she is 12 years old. During the period of adolescence the physical, physiological changes, thoughts, behaviour, and social relations changes radically.
Adolescents often decide about their future line of work and think about starting their own families in a few years. For example, adolescents can begin to decide what to buy with their own money or who will be their friend. One of the first things they do is to start making their own decisions. Adolescents can spend hour’s day dreaming about their future life. They act responsibly without demanding freedom as payment. However, they have limited freedom and they are weak economically. It is very common in adolescents who receive allowances and have ample of free times. They have more time for themselves, love to socialise with people of same age group, and often involve themselves in peer relationships. They began to have more fun and become less serious than older generations.
Another common characteristic in adolescents is a sense of uniqueness. Searching for a unique identity is one of the problems that adolescents often face. Adolescents often have role models. Every movie stars, sports players, stage players, or rock stars have mostly adolescents as their fan following. It is not necessary that they will stop following their fans after the end of adolescence phase. Adolescents often express a desire to be like their chosen role model. In west, most of the adolescents follow rock music. This often raises the sale of the records. According to pop singer Jo Stafford
"Rock and Roll is an economic thing. Today's nine-to fourteen year old group is the first generation with enough money given to them by their parents to buy records in sufficient quantities to influence the market. In my youth if I asked my father for 45 cents to buy a record, he'd have thought seriously about having me committed."
Adolescents often decide about their future line of work and think about starting their own families in a few years. For example, adolescents can begin to decide what to buy with their own money or who will be their friend. One of the first things they do is to start making their own decisions. Adolescents can spend hour’s day dreaming about their future life. They act responsibly without demanding freedom as payment. However, they have limited freedom and they are weak economically. It is very common in adolescents who receive allowances and have ample of free times. They have more time for themselves, love to socialise with people of same age group, and often involve themselves in peer relationships. They began to have more fun and become less serious than older generations.
Another common characteristic in adolescents is a sense of uniqueness. Searching for a unique identity is one of the problems that adolescents often face. Adolescents often have role models. Every movie stars, sports players, stage players, or rock stars have mostly adolescents as their fan following. It is not necessary that they will stop following their fans after the end of adolescence phase. Adolescents often express a desire to be like their chosen role model. In west, most of the adolescents follow rock music. This often raises the sale of the records. According to pop singer Jo Stafford
"Rock and Roll is an economic thing. Today's nine-to fourteen year old group is the first generation with enough money given to them by their parents to buy records in sufficient quantities to influence the market. In my youth if I asked my father for 45 cents to buy a record, he'd have thought seriously about having me committed."
In India, we see the majority of adolescents follow movie stars. Adolescents choose their role model and often try to copy their style of living, attitude, hairstyle, clothes and so on. According to India Today majority of boys follow Salman Khan and wants to be macho like him and girls want their dream date like Salman Khan.
The adolescent's psychology is broader and more complex. The major problem with adolescents is group socialism. They opt to spend times with peers than their parents. The adolescent comes to rely heavily on the peer group for emotional support. Adolescents in a peer group are less likely to be depressed or have anxiety. It is difficult for a depressed adolescent to make friends. Though family does everything in rising a child and family support is quite influential still peers influence adolescents about issues as educational aspirations and performance, in most cases there is overlap between family and peer influences. This is the reason why most of the adolescents are confused about their decision and often fail to conclude.
Attitude of adolescents towards people changes, particularly towards parents. Adolescent person share talks and keep relationships formally towards parents and more informal towards members of his or her age, particularly person of the opposite sex. Adolescence is the period during which the person experiences a rise in sexual feelings. During this time, the person learns to control and direct his sex urges. The concept of dating a boy or a girl arises in their mind. This is very natural and very less people can have control over it. An adolescent person enjoys companies of a person of opposite sex. Sexual feelings in adolescents sometime lead them to wrong way. When depressed desires of adolescents are not satisfied, they find alternatives to get satisfy by reading or watching pornography, talking to the person of opposite sex with wrong intentions in mind or by some other way. Sometimes these depressed desires occupy one’s mind and the emotional instability may cause youth crime like rape. Therefore, it is very important to understand adolescent’s psychology and behaviour. Several movies in west like American pie, A Short Story About Love (Polish), Eu Tu Mama Tambian (Spanish) and in India movies like Rockford, Ek Choti Si Love Story depicts the life, nature, attitude, relationships, and sexual feelings of adolescents.
Adolescents of every age have somewhat similar features. The physical and physiological changes of adolescence proceed radically; however, the general steps of changes in adolescence apply to most people.
Azmi
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