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23 Cards in this Set
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which of the following is a more accurate vision of adolexcence |
for most indidviduals, adolescence is a time of evaluation, decision makings,commitment, and carving out a place in the world |
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strom and stress view of adolescence |
stanley hall -adolescence is a turvulent time charged with conflict and mood swings |
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puberty |
period of rapid physical and sezual maturation that occurs mainly during early adolescence |
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menarche |
girls first mensturation |
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hormones |
powerful chemical substances secrated by the endocrine glands and carried through the vody by the bloodstream |
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hypothalamus |
structure in the higher protion of the brain that monitors eating and sex |
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pituitary gland |
important endocrine gland that controls growth and regulates other glands, including the honads |
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gonads |
sex glands testes in males ovaries in females |
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testosterone |
hormone associated in boys development of genitals increase of height and change in voise |
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estradiol |
type of estrogen breast, uterine, and skeletal development in females
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during puberty |
hormones increase in eightfold prodominant hormone and two fold other hormone |
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corpus callosum |
location where fibersconnect the brains left and right hemispheres |
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amygdlaa |
region of the brain that is the seat of emotions
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anorexia nervosa |
eating disorder that involves the relentless pursuit of thiness through starvation |
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bulimia nervosa |
eating disorder in which the indidvudiual consitstently follows a vings and purge pattern |
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foaruond age 7 children enter the |
concrete operational stage of cognitive delveopment -can reason logiaclly baout concrete events and ovjects -make gains in ability to classify ovjects and to reason about the relationships between classes of objects |
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around age 11 piaget says |
fourth and finals tage of cognitive development FORMAL OPERATIOAL STAGE
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formal operational stage |
abstract use hypothetical deductive reasoning |
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hypothetical deductive reasoning |
piagets formal operational concept that adolescents have the cognitive ability to develop hyopheses or best guesses about ways to solve problems |
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adolescent egocentrism |
the heightened self consciousness of adolescents |
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imaginary audience |
belief that others are interested in them as they themselves are |
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personal fable |
adolscents sendse of uniqueness and invincibility |
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service learning |
form of education that promotes social responsiblity and service to the community |
