Sleeping patterns vary with personality. Speaking from my own personal sleeping habits, I think I sleep too much. Personally I go into a very deep sleep and do not wake up to anything or anyone. The main reason behind this is because of college and dorm life. When you stay up so late so many days in a row, you can fall into a bad sleeping pattern. This pattern is a very difficult way to live, which I have found out for myself. Living in a dorm can be exhausting due to the constant interruption by other people all day and night. On the other side, as you grow older, your duration of sleep tends to decrease.

Another depiction in the sleeping pattern is dreams. Dreams play an important role in someone's life. Dreams often represent meaningful events within someone's life. Personally I do not think that I dream a lot, but maybe that is because I cannot remember them. Freud had theorized that dreams have two different levels of meaning. The first meaning is the manifest conten

Cognitive development is another approach to psychology that I have a particular liking to. The reason I like cognitive development is because it pertains to the process of how thinking changes over time.

specially self-appearance. As stated in the book text, things become clearer. The example of how a short wide glass can hold just as much liquid as a tall narrow one. This new ability to differentiate between things like this is known as conservation. The fourth and final stage of Piaget's theory is the formal operation stage, which is from about age twelve and on. During this stage, children's abstract thought appears. At this age children also tend to conquer harder concepts such as truth, justice, relationships and existence. I can relate my little cousin to this stage. He is involved in many relationships now with girls and he is only 14 years old. Whenever I talk to him he plays the "twenty questions" game with me. As far as truth goes, I notice he lies a lot, but every young kid always lies.

Adolescence takes on a good portion of someone's life. Adolescence begins mainly at puberty and ends sometime around adulthood. I myself feel I have grown up much quicker because of the atmosphere I was always in. When I was younger I always hung out with my older brother and his friends. I think I have developed a certain charisma from hanging out with older kids at a younger age. When I meet older people than me, they seem to respect me more and give me a chance, rather then thinking I am an immature eighteen year old.

Another theory by Erikson is that of the occupational choices within adolescence. According to Erikson, deciding on a vocational commitment is a central issue of adolescent identity formation. In this particular stage of adolescence, I think many people are confused. People seem to be so caught up in the

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