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- A period of rapid physical maturation involving hormonal and bodily changes that occur primarily during early adolescence
- Puberty
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A girl's first menstruation, comes rather late in the pubertal cycle
Menarche
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Powerful chemical substances secreted by the endocrine glands and carried through the body by the bloodstream
Hormones
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A structure in the brain that monitors eating and sex
Hypothalamus
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Important endocrine gland that controls growth and regulates other glands
Pituary gland
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The testes in males
Gonads
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A hormone associated in boys with the development of genitals, an increase in height, and change in voice
Testosterone
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Associated with breast, uterine, and skeletal development in girls
Estradiol
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The place in the brain where fibers connect the brain's left and right hemispheres, thickens in adolescence, and this improves adolescents ability to process information
Corpus callosum
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The seat of emotions such as anger, matures earlier than the prefrontal cortex
Amygdala
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STI
Sexual Transmitted Infections
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What percentage of 15-year old boys met the federal requirement for exercise recommendation
31 percent
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3 leading Causes of death in adolescence
- 1. Accidents
- 2. Homicide
- 3. Suicide
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An eatind disorder that involves the renlentless pursuit of thinness through starvation
Anorexia nervosa
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3 characteristics of people suffering from anorexia
- 1. Weighing less than 85% of the normal weight for your age range
- 2. A distorted image of their body
- 3. An intense fear of gaining weight that does not decrease with weight loss
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An eating disorder in which the individual consistenly follows a bing-and-purge pattern
Bulimia nervosa
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What is the percentage of daughters of teenage mothers to become teenage mothers
66%
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Piaget proposed around age 7, children enter this stage of cognitive development
Concrete operational stage
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Piaget's fourth and final stage of cognitive development occuring around age 11
Formal operational stage
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Creating a hypothesis and deducing implications, which orovide ways to test hypothesis
Hypothetical deductive reasoning
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A heightened self-consciousness of adolescents
Adolescent egocentric
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An adolescent's belief that others are interested in them as they are, as well as atrention getting behavior-attempts to be noticed, visible and "on stage".
Imaginary audience
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The part of adolescent egocentricism involving a sense of uniqueness and invincibilty or invulnerability. The adolescent would usually make up stories to enhance themselves
Personal fable
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A higher order of cognitive activities such as reasoning, making decisions, monitoring critical thinking, and monitoring one's cognitive procesd
Executive function
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What advantage does a late maturing male have over an warly maturing male
The late maturing boys had a stronger sense of identity when they were on thier 30's.
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What are some disadvantages for an early maturing girl?
- They are more likely to:
- 1. Smoke
- 2. Marry earlier
- 3. Engage in sex
- 4. Drink alcohol
- 5. Less likely to graduate high school
- 6. Eating disorder
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What percentage of motor vehicle fatalaties involving adolescents does the driver have a blood level alcohol of 0.10
50%
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What percentage of U.S. youth have engahed in sex by age 20?
77%
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What factors contribute to the cycle of teenage pregnancy?
- 1. Low patental monitoring
- 2. Poverty
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What are 5 factors of early sexual activity
- 1. Drug use
- 2. Deliquency
- 3. School related proems
- 4. Alcohol use
- 5. Poor parent-child communication
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A form of education that promotes social responsibility and service to the community
Service Learning
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