Lifespan Psychology - Chapter 11

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the transition between childhood and adulthood; begins with puberty and involves accepting one's full-grown body, acquiring adult ways of thinking, attaining greater independence from one's family, developing more mature ways of relating to peers of both sexes, and constructing and identity

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adolescence

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an eating disorder in which young people starve themselves beacause of a compulsive dear of getting fat

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anorexia nervosa

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conception of and attitude toward one's physical appearance

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body image

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an eating disorder in which individuals (mainly females) engage in strict dieting and excessive exercise accompanied by binge eating, often followed by deliverate vomiting and purging with laxatives

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bulimia nervosa

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Piaget's final stage, in which adolescents develop the capacity for abstract, systematic, scientific thinking; begins around age 11

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formal operational stage

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rapid gain in height and weight during adolescence

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growth spurt

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a formal operational problem-solving strategy in which adolescents start with a hypothesis, or prediction, about variables that might possibly 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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hypothetico-deductive reasoning

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adolescents' belief that they are the focus of everyone else's attention and concern

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imaginary audience

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first menstruation

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menarche

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adolescents' belief that they are special and unique; leads them to conclude that others cannot possible understand their thoughts and feelings and may promote a sense of invulnerability to danger

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personal fable

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physical features that involve the reproductive organs directly

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primary sexual characteristics

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a type of formal operational reasoning in which adolescents evaluate the logic of verbal statements without referring to real-world circumstances

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propositional thought

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biological changes at adolescence that lead to an adult-sized body and sexual maturity

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puberty

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features visible on the outside of the body that serve as signs of sexual maturity but do not involve the reproductive organs

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secondary sexual characteristics

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a change in body size, pubertal timing, or other aspect of development from one generation to the next

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secular trend

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first ejaculation of seminal fluid

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spermarche