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29 Cards in this Set
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Adolescence |
The transition between childhood and adulthood |
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Puberty |
A flood of biological events leading to an adult-sized body and sexual maturity |
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Early adolescence |
11 to 14 years. This is of a rapid pubertal change |
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Middle adolescence |
14 to 16 years. Pubertal changes are now nearly complete |
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Late adolescence |
16 to 18 years. The young person achieves full adult appearance anticipates Assumption of adult roles |
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Growth spurt |
The first outward sign of puberty is the rapper Game in height and weight |
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Primary sexual characteristics |
Involve the reproductive organs ( ovaries, uterus, and vagina in females; penis scrotum and testes in males |
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Secondary sexual characteristics |
Are the visible on the outside of the body and serve as additional signs sexual maturity example of breast development in female |
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Menarche |
First menstruation. Typically occurs around age 12 and a half for North American girls, 13 for Western Europeans. Age range is wide from 10 1/2 to 15 1/2 years |
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Spermarche |
First ejaculation |
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Secular trend |
Generational change. |
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Body image |
Conception of an attitude toward their physical appearance |
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Anorexia nervosa |
Tragic eating disorder in which the young people starve themselves because of a compulsive fear of getting fat |
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Bulimia nervosa |
Young people (again mainly girls, but gay and bisexual boys are also vulnerable) engage in binge eating, followed by compensatory efforts to avoid weight gain, such as deliberate vomiting, purging with laxatives, excessive exercise, or fasting |
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Binge eating disorder |
Binge eating at least once a week for 3 months or longer, without compensatory purging exercise or fasting |
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Young people ages 15 to 24 have the highest rates of STIs of all age groups |
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Formal operational stage |
In which they developed the capacity for abstract, systematic, scientific thinking |
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Hypothetico- deductive reasoning |
When faced with a problem, they start with a hypothesis, or prediction about variables that might affect an outcome, from which they deduce logical, testable inferences. Then they systemically isolate and combining variables to see which of these and furious's are confirmed in the real world |
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Propositional thought |
Adolescents ability to evaluate the logic of propositions (verbal statements) without referring to real word circumstances |
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Working memory |
Increases, enabling more information to be held in my at once and combined into increasingly complex, efficient representations, "open possibilities for growth" in the capacities listed below and also improving as a result of gains in those capacities |
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Inhibition |
Both of irrelevant stimuli end of well learned responses in situations where they are inappropriate- improves, supporting gains in attention and reasoning |
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Attention |
Becomes more selective ( focus on relevant information) and flexible- better adapted to the changing demands of tasks |
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Planning on complex tasks |
With multiple steps improves, becoming better organized and efficient |
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Strategies |
Become more effective, enhancing storage, representation, and retrieval of information |
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Knowledge increases |
Easing strategy to use |
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Metacognition |
Awareness of thought expands, leading to new insights into effective strategies for acquiring information and solving problems |
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Cognitive self-regulation |
Improve, yelding better Moment by moment modernity, evaluation, and redirection of thinking |
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Imaginary audience |
Adolescents belief that they are the focus of everyone else's attention and concern |
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Personal fable |
Certain that others are observing and thinking about them, teenagers develop an inflated opinion of their own importance - a feeling that they are special and unique |
