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| The Nature of Adolescence |
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| Growing up has never been easy. However, adolescence is not best viewed as a time of rebellion, crisis, pathology, and deviance. A far more accurate vision of adolescence describes it as a time of evaluation, of decision making, of commitment, and of carving out a place in the world. Most of the problems of today's youth are not with the youth themselves. What adolescents need is access to a range of legitmate opportunities and to long-term support from adults who care deeply about them |
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| A period of rapid physical maturation, occurring primarily in early adolescence, that involves hormonal and bodily changes |
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| A girl's first menstruation |
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| A hormone associated in boys with genital development, increased height, and deepening of the voice |
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| A type of estrogen that in girls is associated with breast, uterine, and skeletal development. |
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| Powerful chemical substances secreted by the endocrine glands and carried through the body by the bloodstream |
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| The location where fibers connect the brain's left and right hemispheres. This thickens in adolescence, and this improves adolescences' ability to process information |
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| This "judgement" region in the brain reigns in intense emotions but doesn't finish developing until atleast emerging adulthood |
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| The region of the brain that is the seat of emotions. Such emotions as anger, this area develops quickly before other regions that help to control it |
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| Sexually Transmitted Infections |
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| Infections that are contracted primarily through sexual contact, including oral-genital and anal-genital contact |
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| Leading Causes of Death in Adolescence |
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1.Unintentional Injuries
2. Homicide
3. Suicide |
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| An eating disorder that involves the relentless pursuit of thinness through starvation |
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| An eating disorder in which the individual consistently follows a binge-and-purge pattern |
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| Hypoethical-deductive reasoning |
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| 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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| The heightened self-consciousness of adolescents. |
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| Adolescents' belief that others are interested in the them as they are in themselves are, as well as attention-getting behavior motivated by a desire to be noticed, visible, and "on stage" |
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| The part of adolescent egocentrism that involves an adolescent's sense of uniqueness and invincibility (or invulnerability) |
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| Effective control of thinking in a number of areas, including controlling attention, reducing interfering thoughts, and being cognitively flexible. |
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