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Adolescence
takes a person from childhood to adulthood including socioemotional, congnitive, and physical changes
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Puberty
A period of rapid physical maturation involving hormonal and bodily changes that occur primarily during early adolescence
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Hypothalamus
a structure in the higher portion of the brain that monitors eating and sex
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Testosterone
The male hormone
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Estradiol
The femal hormone
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The ____ thickens and this improves ability to process information
Corpus collosum
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Sexual orientation
sex attractions
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Sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
infections contracted primarily through sexual contact
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The leading causes of deathin teens
- Accidents
- Homicides
- suicides
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Anorexia Nervosa
an eating disorder that involves the relentless pursuit of thinness through starvation
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Bulimia Nervosa
an eating disorder in which the individual consistently follows a binge-and-purge pattern
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Piaget's 4th stage
Formal operational thought
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Hypothetical deducting reasoning
Piaget's formal operational concept that adolescents have the cognitive ability to develop hypothesis, or best guesses, about ways to solve problems.
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Adolescent egocentrism
A heightened self consciousness of adolescents.
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Executive Functioning
involves higher-order cognitive activities such as reasoning, making decisions, and monitoring one's cognitive progress.
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The lungs ____ in size and weight.
Triples
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The heart ____ in size
doubles
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Invincibility fables
immune to normal troubles and dangers
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Personal Fable
the part of the adolescent egocentrism that involves an adolescents sense of uniqueness and invincibility
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Imaginary audience
adolescent's belief that others are as interested in them as they themselves are; attention getting behavior motivated by a desire to be noticed and visible.
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Erikson's 5th stage
Identity vs identity confusion
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crisis
a period of identity development during which the adolescent is exploring alternatives.
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Commitment
the part of identity development in which adolescents show a personal investment in forming an identity
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Identity diffusion
adolescents who have not yet experienced a crisis or made any commitments
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identity foreclosure
adolescents who have made a commitment but have not yet experienced a crisis
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identity moratorium
adolescents who are in the midst of a crisis, but their commitments are absent or vaguely defined
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Identity achievement
adolescents who have undergone a crisis and have made a commitment
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Ethnic identity
an enduring, basic aspect of the self that includes a sense of membership in an ethnic group and the attitudes and feelings related to that membership.
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Individuality
consists of 2 dimensions: self-assertion (ability to have and communicate a point of view) and separatenes (the use of communication patterns to express how one is different from others.
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Connectedeness
consists of 2 dimensions: mutuality (sensitivity to, and respect for, others' views), and permeability (openess to others' views).
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Rite of passage
a ceremony or ritual that marks an individuals' transition from childhod to adulthood.
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Assimilation
the absorption of ethnic minority groups into the dominant group.
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pluralism
coexistence of distinct ethnic and cultural groups in the same society, each of which maintains its cultural differences
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Juvenile delinquent
an adolescent who breaks the law or engages in behavior that is considered illegal
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____is the leading cause of death in ages 10-19
suicide
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_______are more likely to attempt suicide
Females
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___are more likely to succeed in suicide
Males
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Four problems that affect most adolescents
- Drug abuse
- Juvenile delinuency
- Sexual problems
- school related problems
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Individuality
consists of two dimensions: self assertion (ability to haven and communicate a point of view) and separateness (the use of communication patterns to express how one is different from others
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Connectedness
Consists of 2 dimensions: mutuality (sensitivity to, respect for, other's views), and permiability (openness to other's views
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