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Not more than ten sentences, summarize the growth and development in adolescence and two theorists that study that age group.
Adolescence is the period of transition between childhood and
adulthood.
It is the period of rapid physical, cognitive, emotional maturity
of boy and girl occurs as it prepares for manhood and
womenhood.
An individual undergo both psychosocial and biological
devolopment in adolescence period of their life.
They may face with problem of group identity. It appears to be the
essential to the devolopment of sense of personality.
As a part of biological devolopment increased physical growth,
devolopment of secondary sexual charecters is seen in both male and
female.
There are several Scientists performed studies on growth and
devolopment in adolescence.
Freud's psychosexual devolopmental theory: it explains the
experience s that an individual undergo in adulthood and how
affects the personality later.
Erikson's psychosocial devolopmental theory: it produces a
framework of stages of life on the basis of social interactions and
experience.