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| developmental transition between childhood and adulthood entailing major physical, cognitive, and psychosocial changes |
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| process by which a person attains sexual maturity and ability to reproduce |
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| primary sex characteristics |
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| organs directly related to reproduction which enlarge and mature during adolescence |
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| secondary sex characteristics |
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| physiological signs of sexual maturity (breasts and body hair) that do not involve the sex organs |
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| sharp increase in height and weight that precedes sexual maturity |
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| trend that can be seen only by observing several generations, such as the trend toward earlier attainment of adult height and sexual maturity which began a century ago in some countries |
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| Piaget's final stage of cognitive development characterized by the ability to think abstractly |
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| hypothetical-deductive reasoning |
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| ability, believed by Piaget, to accompany the stage of formal operations, to develop, consider, and test hypotheses |
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| acquired factual knowledge stored in long term memory |
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| acquired skills stored in long term memory |
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| acquired interpretive understandings stored in long term memory |
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| first level of Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning in which control is external and rules are obeyed in order to gain rewards or avoid punishment or out of self-interest |
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| second level in Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning in which standards of authority figures are internalized |
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| postconventional morality |
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| third level of Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning in which people follow internally held moral principles and can decide between conflicting moral standards |
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| personal involvement in schooling, work, family |
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