Adolescent Development

Most teenagers think they feel mature and can make a serious decision and feel that they can handle their emotions even in serious and stressful situations. But this thought is a normal part of the adolescent stage. This study provides evidence of brain development in adolescence and emphasizes that these young people can not understand their all irrational and emotional behavior. Since mature adolescent brain is biologically meaningful, it is impossible to psychologically understand the long-term impact of committing a serious crime.

When studying adolescent development, puberty can be defined biologically, ie physical changes characterized by the beginning of puberty and the end of physical development; cognitive, abstract and multidimensional As a change in thinking ability; or as preparation period of social, adult role. Major puberty and biological changes include changes in genitalia, height, weight and muscle mass, as well as major changes in brain structure and tissue. Cognitive progress includes both an increase in knowledge and ability to abstract thinking and more effective reasoning. Pubertal development studies usually involve interdisciplinary collaborative research. For example, researchers of neuroscience or biophysical health may focus on changes in adolescence of brain structures and their impact on cognitive or social relationships.

Two main reasons to study the moral development of young people. First, cognitive changes that occur during puberty are related to moral development. With formal operational sinking, young people can interpret the social environment in a new way. Secondly, we can treat them as moral philosophers. Because they can design a new idealistic social order that everyone should follow. Many researchers are aware of other changes in ethical development that point out the importance of adolescence as a transitional stage in ethical development. Unlike children, young people are concerned about the right things, but they are not wrong. In addition, adolescence is focused on personal and social ethics. As they acquire the ability to understand other ideas, they will find that moral principles are relative rather than absolute.

Moral development is defined as the ability of individuals to make a principle choice and how to treat each other. In the early days of puberty, many attitudes, beliefs, and values ​​of adolescent development are still present in their lives (Brighton, 2007). They have shifted to develop their own personal values ​​completely from accepting adult moral decisions, but they usually accept values ​​of parents and major adults (Scales, 2010). As mentioned above, the young adolescent's ability to analyze thinking, contemplation and reflection is a characteristic of their connection between intellectual development and moral development. Young adults also tend to have an idealistic and impartial sense of fairness (Kellough & Kellough, 2008; Scales, 2010). When they enter the ethical development interpersonal integration phase (Kohlberg, 1983), young adolescents begin adjusting their understanding of those who care about themselves with their self centricity (Roney, 2005 ).