Mental changes and development in adolescence

Mental changes and development in adolescence

Mental changes and development during adolescence accelerates on many intellectual fronts. The mental development or changes in adolescence are characterized as under:

i) Ability to generalize the facts: Children usually generalize in relation to concrete objects, whereas adolescence can generalize in an abstract way.

ii) Increased ability to understanding: There is an increase in the ability to see relationship and to think the solution of more difficult problems.

iii) Development of memory and imagination: With the maturity of nervous system the memory power of adolescent increases. Besides this, they can imagine about a situation which is not physically present.

In spite of these changes, the ability to communication with other persons, moral concepts, decisions making and identification with conditions also develop significantly.