Personal Narrative: My Intellectual Development

My adolecent years helped me grow into woman that has the ability to look the world from her own abstract perspective. There were three developments I went through; biosocial, cognitive, and psychosocial. Biosocial deals with the things that are happening in person’s body, like growth and nutrition. Cognitive development deals with the way the adolescents think. Lastly, psychosocial development deals with the interaction between a society and a person, and their identity. As you read this essay, you will learn adolecent experience.

Biosocial Development I was always small little girl, till puberty changed my life; I was growing both physically and mentally. I didn’t know that there was body chemicals callled hormones were affecting my

According to Piaget, adolecents and adults use analysis; they become more abstract. This explains why many adolencents take algebra and geometry because they have to ability to think abstract and analyze. At that point of my life, I learned to understand why people do the things they do and apply my abstract thinking to religion. During my adolescent years, I began to question my faith and try to understand why I need religion in my life. My parents where so supportive of me and answered all the questions and doubts I had about my religion. Therefore, I had hypothetical thoughts; reseasoning that includes if-then that often does not reflect reality (Berger 2014 pg 432). For instance, when my mom told me I am now a woman after I got my menarche; first menstrual period, I said, “if I am woman now, and all women can vote, then does this mean I can vote.” As an adolecent, I started to have hypothetical thoughts to state my opinion in politics and

A concept that really reflects what I was going thought my adolescent years is Erikson’s fifth stage of development, identity versus role confusion. According to Erikson, adolecents are confused because there are so many roles, so they try to find their individual identity. This sheds light on what I was going through at that time. I didn’t know who I was or who I am supposed to be and I was dealing with role of confusion; being careless or not knowing their identity. As a result, I took off my hijab (a head scarf that a Muslim girl is suppose to wear for modesty) because everybody else in my school wasn’t wearing it. But my junior year of high school is when I started wearing my headscarf because I realized it went against my own values. This year is when I discovered my own identity. According to Erikson, my junior year of high school was my identity achievement; when a person understands themselves as unique