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32 Cards in this Set
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transitions between childhood and adulthood
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adolescence
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beginning of adolescenes is marked by this and is a flood of biological events leading to an adult sized body and sexual maturity
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puberty
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Psychological disturbance either increases or decreases and how much during childhood to adolescences
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increases slightly
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these three things influence adolescent development?
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biological,psychological, and social forces
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what hormone leads to muscle growth, body and facial har, and other male sex characterstics?
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testosterone
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this hormone is released by the ovaries and causes breasts,uterus, and vagina to mature and helps fat accumulate
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estrogen
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this hormone is influenced by girls height spurt and stimulate growth of underarm and pubic hair
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adrenal androgens
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the first outward sign of puberty is the rapid gain in height and weight known as what age does it occur in each sex?
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growth spurt
women-10 men-12 1/2 |
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This growth trend reverses during puberty?
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cephalocaudal
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boys shoulders broaden relative to the ____, girls ____ broaden relative to the shoulders and waist
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hip, hip
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this % of NA high school seniors have taken an anabolic steroid
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3
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this involves the reproduction organs
this involves visible on the outside of the body and serve as additional signs of sexual maturity |
primary sexual characterstics
secondary sexual characterstics |
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puberty development takes place this long?
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4 years
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these 3 things make puberty vary in growth?
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heredity, nutriton and exercise
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this is a generational change
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secural trend
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Negative moods are linked to this?
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negative life events
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conception of an attitude toward their physical appereance
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body image
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the most common nutritional problem of adolescenes is?
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iron deficiency
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tragic eating disturbance in which young people starve themselves because of a compulsive fear of getting fat? what percent of NA teenage girls?
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anorexia nervosa 1%
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an eating disorder in which young people engage in strict dieting and exercise accompained by binge eating, and vomiting what percent of girls?
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bulimia nervosa 2-3%
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the production of this leads to an increase in sex drive?
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androgens
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this % of teens have abortions
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40% in US 50 % in Canada
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at the end of high school % smoke, % have engaged in heavily drinking, % illegal drugs
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14, 28, 50
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around 11 people enter the stage in which they develop the capacity for abstract, systematic, scientific thinking
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formal operational stage
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this reasoning is when faced with a problem, they start with a hypothesis,then they deduce logical, testable inferences from that hypothesism systematically isolating and combining variable to see which inference are confirmed in the real world
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hypothetico-deductive reasoning
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adolescents ability to evaluate the logic of propositions without referring to real-world circumstances
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propostional thought
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this is at the heart of scientific reasoning, they show a self-serving bias in that they apply logic more effectively to ideas they doubt than to ideas they favor
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metacognitive
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adolescents belief that they are the focus of everyone else's attention and concer
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imaginary audience
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teens 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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personal fable
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girls show a biological advantage in earlier development of the ___ hemi of the cerebral cortex
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left
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this % of American and Canadian young people leave high school without a diploma
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11
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this % of American and this % of Canadian earn college degrees
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42, 58
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