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24 Cards in this Set
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What is adolescence?
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Developmental transition between childhood and adulthood entailing major physcial, cognitive, and psychosocial changes.
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What is puberty?
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Process by which a person attains sexual maturity and the ability to reproduce.
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What is andrenarche?
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Maturation of adrenal glands.
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What is gonadarche?
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Maturation of testes or ovaries.
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What are primary sex characteristics?
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Organs directly related to reproduction, which enlarge and mature during adolescence.
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What are secondary sex characteristics?
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Physiological signs of sexual maturation (such as breast development and growth of body hair) that do not involve the sex organs.
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What is adolescent growth spurt?
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Sharp increase in height and weight that precedes sexual maturity.
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What is spermarche?
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Boy's first ejaculation.
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What is menarche?
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Girl's first menstruation.
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What is "secular trend"?
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Trend that can be seen only by observing several generations, such as the trend toward eariler attainment of adult height and sexual maturitym which began a century ago in some countries.
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What is body image?
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Descriptive and evaluative beliefs about one's appearance.
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What is anorexia nervosa?
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Eating disorder characterized by self-starvation.
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What is bulimia nervosa?
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Eating disorder in which a person regularly eats huge quantities of food and then purges the body by laxatives, induced vomiting, fasting, or excessive exercise.
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What is substance abuse?
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Repeated harmful use of a substance, usually alcohol or other drugs.
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What is substance dependence?
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Addiction (physical, or psychological, or both) to a harmful substance.
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What is hypothetical-deductive reasoning?
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Ability, believed by Piaget to accompany the stage of formal operations, to develop, consider, and test hypothesis.
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What is declarative knowledge?
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Acquired factual knowledge stored in long-term knowledge.
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What is procedural knowledge?
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Acquired skills stored in long-term memory.
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What is conceptual knowledge?
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Acquired interpretive understandings stored in long-term memory.
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What is preconventional morality?
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First level of Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning in which control is external and rules are obeyed in order to gain rewards or avoid punishment or out of self-interest.
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What is conventional morality (or morality of conventional role conformity)?
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Second level in Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning, in which people follow internally held moral principles and can decide among conflicting moral standards.
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What is postconventional morality (or morality of autonomous moral principles)?
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Third level of Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning, in which people afollow internally held moral principles and can decide among conflicting moral standards.
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What is active engagement?
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Personal involvement in schooling, work, family, or other activity.
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What are formal operations?
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Piaget's final stage of cognitive development, characterized by the ability to think abstractly.
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