Adolescence/Young Adulthood (puberty to 25)

A. One example of a familial or sociocultural influence on your Biological Development

B. One example of a familial or sociocultural influence on your Cognitive Development

C. One example of a familial or sociocultural influence on your Socioemotional Development

 

A. Familial or sociocultural influence on your Biological Development.

Frequent parent-adolescent communication and positive identification with parents are

associated with eating meals with their families at least six nights a week, meaning

parents get a chance to be with their children at the end of the day. Such adolescents tend

to have healthy diets instead of avoiding their parents only to be caught up in drinking

and smoking with peers. The result will be healthy lifestyles and exemplary biological

development compared to those with less family connection.

Step-by-step explanation

B. Familial or sociocultural influence on your Cognitive Development.

When an adolescent is involved in clear and consistent discipline from the family as well as

teachers and guardians, they automatically develop cognitive instruction of what needs to be

done. Youth who end up in the juvenile justice system show a similar trend even in their later

life. Most of these youths are always from unstable families where discipline is not considered

and hence their brain recognizes the deviant behavior as the only way.

C. Familial or sociocultural influence on your Socioemotional Development.

Effective parenting (nurturing, supportive parenting), will influence an adolescent socio-

emotional development in the direction of prosocial behavior and values. The same can be

influenced by school environments and neighborhood that foster sharing and caring for others.

He or she will naturally be pulled to help those around him or her and have positive relations

with everyone. Supportive parenting creates a loving environment such that the adolescent does

not feel the need to seek attention in deviant peers, which always lead to variety of problems,

including precocious transitions like early pregnancy, premature independence from parents and

school dropout.