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What refers to the years of rapid physical growth and sexual maturation that end childhood.
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Puberty
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What is the girls first menstrual period?
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Menarche
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What is the first ejaculation of seminal fluid?
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Spermarche
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An organic chemical substance that is produced by one body tissue and conveyed via the bloodstream to another to affect some physiological function.
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Hormone
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How many hormones affect human growth and maturation?
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atleast 23
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A gland in the brain that responds to a signal from the hypothalamus by producing many hormones (adrenal and sex glands)
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Pituitary
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Two glands, located above the kidneys, that produce hormones
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Adrenal glands
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The route followed by hormones that regulate stress, growth, sleep, appetite, and sexual excitement as well as puberty.
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HPA
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The paired sex glands
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Gonads
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A sex hormone, considered the cheif estrogen. Females produce more than males
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Estradiol
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A sex hormone, the best known of the adrogens (male hormones); secreted in far greater amounts by males than females
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testosterone
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What axis leadf from brain to body to behavior?
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HPA
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T/F both boys and girls reported more anger when they had had moderate amounts of hormones, not the highest levels of testosterone or estrogen
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True
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Puberty is affected by genes, body fat and ____________.
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stress
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Girls are about two years ahead of boys in height but sexually they are ahead by only a few_________.
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months
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Who tend to reach puberty earlier than do European Americans or Hispanic Americans?
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African Americans
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What delays puberty?
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Malnutrition
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What favored genes that adapted to wars, famine, and sickness by initiating early puberty?
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natural selection
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What currently correlates with early romance, sex, and parenthood, which lead to later depression and other psychosocial problesm
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Early Puberty in both sexes
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Because menstruation depletes the body of iron, more adolescent girls are _______than those in other age or gender group.
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Anemic
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What percent of all U.S. teenagers are overweight according to international standards.
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12%
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The relatively sudden and rapid physical growth that occurs during puberty
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Growth spurt
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Why are there more sports injuries in increasing puberty?
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Young adolescents are more vulnerable to fractures than are adults until old age (increase bone mass)
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One organ that decrease in size, thus making teenagers less susceptible to respiratory ailments.
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lymphoid system
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What proceed from inside to the cortex and from back to front?
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Myelination and maturation
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Specializes in quick emotional reactions---sudden anger, joy, fear, despair
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Amygdala
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Coordinates inhibits, and strategizes, this uneven maturation puts adolescents
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prefontal cortex
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The __________and pituitary regulate hormones that affect stress, appetite, and sleep.
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Hypothalamus
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What rhythms affect tiredness, hunger, alertness, elimination, body temperature, nutrient balance, blood composition, and moods?
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Diurnal (daily)
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What causes the girl to become a shorter and sicker woman?
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Deflected normal pubescent growth
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What percentage in the United States used a condom for sexually active high school?
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46%
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Sex abuse is more common between what ages than at any other time
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10-15
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What are some part of reason for variations of drug use?
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Laws and Family Practice
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what are the lowest heavy users for marijuana of any developed nation
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Dutch
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Who smoke the least drugs?
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African and Asian Americans
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What decreases food consumption and interferes with the absorption of nutrients?
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Tobacco
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What impairs memory and self control by damaging the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex
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Drinking
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The idea that each new generation forgets what the previous generation learned about harmful drugs
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Generational Forgetting
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