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What signals the start of adolescence?
The start of pubert
What are the effects of early maturation on boys and girls?
Boys - More popular, excel in athletics, perceived as more attractive, leadership roles

Girls - Difficult due to attractiveness to older boys and concerns of being overweight
What are 5 pubertal developmental affects?
1. Onset of romance and sexuality

2. Intense emotional conflict (ie parents)

3. Risky/Sensation Behavior

4. Sensitivity to social status

5. Devo of control mechanisms of behavior
What are the 3 types of adolescent development?
1. Continuous growth (40%) - smooth continuous change

2. Surgent Growth (40%) - Devo spurts and uneven change

3. Tumultuous Growth - Turmoil and conlict
What characterizes the continuous growth route through adolescence?
Self assurance, confidence.

From solid families without major stressful events.

Good coping skills, interpersonal relationships
What characterizes the surgent growth route through adolescence?
Period of emotional conflict and turmoil alternate with period of steady progress.

Some immature defense with much anger and projection

Some conflicts with parents over values and opinions
What characterizes the tumultuous growth route through adolescence?
Much turmoil and conlict

More troubled families, separation often an issue

Personal insecurity

Identity crises, intense emotional outbursts
Which route through adolescence is most dependent on peer culture?
Tumultuous growth
On e of the hallmarks of adolescence in the US is a preoccupation with what?
The self
What are the 5 top dimensions of adolescent dimensions of self-concept?
1. Physical Appearance

2. Academics

3. Athletics

4. Friendships

5. Romance
What are the 2 main brain morphology changes observed in adolescent development?
1. Linear increases in white matter in all 4 lobs

2. Inverted U shape changes in gray matter with differential peaks of change in different lobes
What is the characteristic pattern of growth of grey matter in adolescents?
Increasing amount of grey matter then pruning back
What is the directional of maturation?
From back to front with the prefrontal cortex developing last
In terms of brain development, what account for the risky behaviors seen in teens?
Relative immaturity of frontal lobes implies less executive functional capacity
What is the term given to describe a characteristic pattern of adolescent thinking which is typified by the sense that others are preoccupied with the adolescents appearance or behavior
"Adolescent Egocentrism"
What are 2 main egocentric tendencies in adolescents?
1. "Being on stage" - heightened self consciousness

2. Myth of "invulnerability"
What is the leading cause of death among adolescents?
unintentional injury
What are the 2 main components of social neuroscience of adolescent risk taking?
1. increased reward seeking (social emotional system of brain)

2. Decreased self regulation
What is the main factor in whether of not adolescents are risky in a motor vehicle?
If their peers/friends are in the car/watching
How do peers increase adolescent risk raking?
By enhancing activity in the brain's reward circuitry
What areas of the adolescent brain are more active vs. adults?
1. Ventral Straitum (reward circuit)

2. Orbital Frontal Cortex (social brain)
What is another main risk factor in adolescence?
Experimenting with substance use
What is the most dangerous activity related to substance use and teens?
Drinking and Driving
What is the main age for male and female first intercourse?
Male = 16

Female = 17
What is a major sexual risk behavior?
alcohol/drug use and sexual intercourse
What are 5 sexual behavior risks to health in teens?
1. Significant age differences

2. Sexual Abuse

3. Excessive numbers of parterns

4. STDs

5. Pregnancy
On average how much older are teenage women's sexual parterns that they are?
3 years
What percentage of girls and boys are sexually assaulted before their 16th birthday?
Boys = 6%

Girls = 15%
The younger the age of first sexual intercourse correlates with what?
The younger the age, the greater number of partners
How many teenage girls are currently infected with an STD?
1 in 4!
Abuse and neglect is far more prevalent in what type of family?
Low income