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| The period from 11 to 14 years of age. |
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| The time of sexual maturation. |
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| The body chemicals that control body growth, emotional responses, and physical changes. |
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| The gland that secretes growth hormones and increses the production in other glands of other hormones. |
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| The glands that produce adrenaline, the stimulating hormone; help sexual maturation, along with gonads. |
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| A rapid increase in growth during puberty. |
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| Someone who develops one and a half years or more ahead of average growth. |
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| Someone who develops one and a half years or more behind average growth. |
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| Conditions in which the person cannot read the body's nutritional needs and eats or refuses to eat for the wrong reasons. |
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| An eating disorder that involves binging on food and purging by vomiting or excessive use of laxatives. |
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| An eating disorder that involves severe loss of weight from excessive dieting. |
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| A socially recognized and ritualized change in status, such as reaching adulthood. |
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| Large groups with loose rules and changeable memberships. |
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| A very tightly knit group with limited membership and strict rules of behavior; normally tied in with school activities. |
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| A rebellious, antisocial group with strict rules but not connected with acepted school or social organizations. |
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| group identity versus alienation |
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| Erikson's idea that early adolescents either belong to a group or feel lost (alienated). |
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| A sense of oneself as a unique person. |
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| Erikson's term for an uncertainty about who one is or where he or she is going. |
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| Individual delays commitment. A term used by both Erikson and Marcia to describe the adolescent's delay in making the commitments normally expected of adults. |
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| Erikson's term for being faithful to one's ideals and values; loyalty. |
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| Individual makes definite commitment. Marcia's term for the state of accepting the identity and values an adolescent was given in childhood. |
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| Marcia's term for defining oneself as "bad" or as a "troublemaker." |
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| Individual makes no commitment. Marcia's term for the state of having no clear idea of one's identity nor attempting to find that identity. |
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| Individual makes a firm commitment. Marcia's term for the state of having developed well-defined personal values and self-concepts. |
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| Piaget's term for the ability to reason in abstract ways; complex thought processes. |
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| Kohlberg's term for the level of moral reasoning that uses basic principles. |
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| Kohlberg's term for aggrements based on the concept of what's "best for everyone." |
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| universal ethical principles |
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| Kohlberg's term for concepts such as justice and honor. |
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| Repeated violations of the law be those 17 and younger. |
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early maturer - boys
late maturer - girls |
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| High self-esteem; Satisfied with physical appearance. |
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early maturer - girls
late maturer - boys |
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| Generally low self-esterrm; Dissatisfied with physical appearance; Highly self-conscious. |
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| Expert in personality development who saw support from social groups as necessary for exploring individual identity. |
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| Expanded on Erikson's work and divided the identity crises into four states. These are not stages but rather processes that adolescents go through. |
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