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| (11-12 to 14 years): This is a period of rapid pubertal change |
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| (14 to 16 years): Pubertal changes are not nearly complete |
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| (16 to 18 years): The young person achieves full adult appearence and anticipates assumption of adult roles |
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| Freud's psychosexual theory, sexual impulses reawaken triggering psychological conflict and volatile bx |
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Sex Hormone
1. Female
2. Male |
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1. Estrogen
2. Testosterone |
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| The first outward sign of puberty is the rapid gain in height and weight |
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Pubertal Changes
(2 types) |
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1. Overall body growth
2. Maturation of sexual characteristics |
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Primary Sexaul Characterstics
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Invovles reproductive organs
(Ovaries, uterus, and vagina in females; penis, scrotum, and testes in males) |
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Secondary Sexual Characteristics |
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Visible on the outside of the body and serve as additional signs of sexual maturity
(breast development in fmales and the app |
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First Menstruation
typically occurs around age 12.5 for North American girls but there is a wide range 10.5-15.5 years of age. |
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| First ejaculation occurs around 13.5 years of age |
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| Secular trend of menarche and spermarche |
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| In industrialized nations the age of menarche and spermarche has steadily declined |
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| Many tribal and village societies celebrate the onset of puberty with a ritualized annoucement to the community |
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Early maturing boys
Vs.
Early maturing girls |
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| It is much more acceptable in our society for boys to mature early then it is for girls to. |
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| Lack of prefrontal cognitve-control network is associated with: |
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| Tasking requiring inhibition, planning, and future orientation are not fully mature |
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| Conception of and attitude toward their physical appearence |
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| Eating disorder in which young people starve themselves beicause of a complusive fear of getting fat. |
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| Young people (mainly girls but gay and bisexual boys are also vulnerable) engages in strict dieting and excessive exercise accompanied by binge eating, often followed by deliberate vomiting and purging with laxatives |
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| Factors that heighten the risk adolescent pregnancy (3) |
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1.Effective Sex ed reaches too few teenagers
2. Convenient low cost contracpetive services are scarce
3.Many families live in poverty which encourages young people to take risks |
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| What the three ways lives of expectant teenagers become worse after the baby is born? |
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1. Educational attainment
2. Marital Patterns
3. Economic Circumstances |
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Formal Operational Stage
(Piaget) |
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Around age 11 children enter a stage in which they develop the capacity for abstract, systematic, scienctific thinking
(They can come up with new more general logical rules through internal reflection) |
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Hypothetico-Deductive Reasonig
(Piaget) |
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| When faced with a problem,they start a hypothesis, or prediction about variables tht might affect the outcome, from which they deduce logical, testible inferences. Then they systemtically isolate and combine varibles to see which of these inferences are confirmed in the real world. |
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Propositional Thought
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Adolsecent's ability to evalute the logic of propositions (verbal statements) without referring to real-world circumstances
(Poker chip experiment. Hide the chip in your hand and ask "eithe rhc hip in my hand is green or is not green" "The chip in my hand is green and is it no green" ) |
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| Piaget's Pendulum Problem |
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| An approach used to illustrate the use of hypothetico-deductive reasoning. Children are given string of different length and weights and need to figure out what combintion of weight and string influence speed |
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From the information processing perspective the central mechanism for adolescent cognitive delevopment
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| Adolescents' belief that they are the focus of every's attention and concern |
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| Certain that others are observing and thinking them, teenagers develop an inflated opinion of their own importantce -- a feeling they are special or unique |
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| Themes related to success in high school (4) |
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1.Remedial instruction and counseling offer personalized attention
2. High-quality vocational training
3.Efforts to address many factors students' lives related to leaving school early
4. Participation in extracurricular activities |
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