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16 Cards in this Set
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Adolescence
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Transition between childhood and adulthood
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Puberty
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The beginning of adolescence where a flood of biological events leading to an adult-sized body and sexual maturity
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Growth Spurt
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First outward sign of puberty is the rapid gain in height weight
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Primary Sexual Characteristics
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Reproductive organs (ovaries, uterus, and vagina in females; penis, scrotum, and testes in the males)
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Secondary Sexual Characteristics
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Visible on outside of the body and serve as additional signs of sexual maturity (breast development in females and underarm/pubic hair in both sexes)
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Menarche
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First menstration
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Spermarche
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First ejaculation
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Body Image
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Conception of and attitude toward their physical appearance
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Anorexia Nervosa
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Tragic eating disturbance in which young people starve themselves because of compulsive fear of getting fat
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Bulimia Nervosa
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Disorder in which young people (mainly girls) engage in strict dieting and excessive exercise accompanied by binge eating, often followed by deliberate vomiting and purging with laxatives
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Formal Operation Stage
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Around age 11 young people enter this stage in which they develop the capacity for abstract, systematic, scientific thinking
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Hypothetico-Deductive Reasoning
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When faced with a problem, they start with a hypothesis, or prediction about variables that might affect an outcome. Then they deduce logical, testable inferences from that hypothesis, systematically isolating and combining variables to see which inferences are confirmed in the real world
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Propositional Thought
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Adolescents' ability evaluate the logic of propositions (verbal statements) without referring to real-world circumstances
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Personal Fable
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Teenagers are so sure that others are observing and thinking about them, they develop an inflated opinion of their own importance; they start to feel that they are special and unique
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Secular Trend
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generational change
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Imaginary Audience
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Adolescence belief that they are the focus of everyone else's attention and concern
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