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Growth spurt
period of rapid growth, changes in body propiortions, weight and height increases
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Puberty: Primary sex characteristics
associated with organs directly related to reproduction
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Puberty: Secondary sex characteristics
sign of sexual maturity that do not directly involve sex organs
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Brain development (as it pertains to puberty): prefrontal cortex
regulation of emotions
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Brain development (as it pertains to puberty): Cerebellum
lacking in teen years, lack intelectual(rational) thought
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Anorexia Nervosa
severly underweight, distorted body image, issues with control, often restrict themselfs from eating, may be also binge and purge
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Bulimia
not severly overweight, distorted body image, issues with control, binge and purge behavior is common
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Cognitive development (as it pertains to adolescence)
egocentrism (increase) and imaginary audience (perception that others are judging the adolescence)
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Piagets theory: stage 4 (formal operational stage)
ages 12+, characterized by abstract reasoning and speculation, ability to think more in terms of hypotheticals
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Information processing approach
continued increases in memory and attention, metacognition (knowlege of ones own thought process)
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Substance abuse: Alcohol (current drinker)
have at least 1 drink in the past 30 days
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Substance abuse: Alcohol (binge drinking)
consume 5 or more drinks in a row (mostly males)
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Substance abuse: Alcohol (Heavy drinker)
bringe drink on at least 5 diffrent occasions in the past 30 days
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Factors related to cause of substance abuse: Biological/genetic factors
tolerance
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Factors related to cause of substance abuse: physiological factors
tension reduction
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Factors related to cause of substance abuse: social/enviornmental factors
modeling, operant conditioning
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