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hormones
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- develop in the hypothalamus and go to the pituitary gland
- then stimulates adrenal glands which produces more hormones - activates gonads (sex glands) --> beginning of puberty |
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who has the higher risk for poor nutrition: IRON
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girls - more likely to have iron deficiency because period depletes iron
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Body image concern:
- girls - boys |
- girls = fat
- boys = weak |
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facts about sexual abuse
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- ruins child's ability to trust, feel comfortable, have intimate relationships
- fathers/stepfathers = culpret - usually females under the age of 16 are the victims |
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drug abuse
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ingestion of a drug to the extent that it impairs the user's biological or psychological well-being
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drug addiction
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person craves more of a drug in order to feel physically and psychologicall at ease
- withdrawl -restlessness, depression, physical disturbance |
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more intuitive, emotional thought
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- 3rd cognitive change in adolescence
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volatile mismatch
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a lack of fit between a person and his/her environment that causes the person to become angry, hostile or depressed
- typically teenagers in school |
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cognitive flexibility: sterotype threat
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the possibility that one's apperance or behavior will be misused to confirm another person's oversimplified, prejudiced attitude
- makes women/minorities doubt their intellectual ability |
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defining issues test (DIT)
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a series of questions developed by James Rest and designed to assess respondents' leve of moral development by having them rank possible solutions of moral dillemas
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Fowler's 6 stages of faith: 1. intuitive - projective faith
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faith is magical, power of God, mysteries of birth and death
- kids age 3-7 |
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Fowler's 6 stages of faith: mythic - literal faith
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taking myths litereally. god rewards his followers
- ages 7-11 and some adults |
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Fowler's 6 stages of faith: synthetic - conventional faith
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conformist stage, reflects concern about other people, "what feels right" over what makes intellectual sense
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Fowler's 6 stages of faith: individual - reflecting stage
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intellectual detachment from the values of the culture and from approval of other people
- for the college aged |
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Fowler's 6 stages of faith: conjunctive faith
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- powerful unconscious ideas and rational conscious values
- learn to accept contradictions, middle-aged |
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Fowler's 6 stages of faith: unversalizing faith
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compassion, justice, love compels them to live their lives in a way that many think is foolish/saintly
- this stage is rarely achieved: Moses, Buddha, MLKJ, mother teresea |