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| the transition between childhood and adulthood |
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| a flood of biological events leading to an adult-sized body and sexual maturity |
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| the first outward sign of puberty, rapid gain in weight and height. |
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| primary sexual characteristics |
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| involve the reproductive organs (ovaries, uterus, vagina, penis, scrotum, and testes). |
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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 (i.e. breast development, pubic hair) |
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| the first menstruation, typically happens around age 12.5 for american girls |
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| first ejaculation, usually happens around age 13.5 |
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| secular trend/generational change |
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| in pubertal timing, lends added support to the role of physical well-being in pubertal development. |
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| conception of and attitude toward their physical appearance, early-maturing girls have a lower one than on-time and later-maturing agemates |
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| a tragic eating disturbance in which young people starve themselves because of a compulsive fear of getting fat |
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| an eating disorder in which young people (again, mainly girls, but gay and bisexual boys are also vulnerable) engage in strict dieting and excessive exercise accompanied by binge eating, often followed by deliberate vomiting and purging with laxatives. |
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| according to piaget, young people enter this around age 11, in which they develop the capacity for abstract, systematic, and scientific thinking. |
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| hypothetico-deductive reasoning |
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| when faced with a problem, adolescents start with a hypothesis, or prediction about variables that might affect an outcome. they can deduce logical. testable inferences from that hypothesis, systematically isolating and combining variables to see which inferences are confirmed in the real world. |
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| adolescents' ability to evaluate the logi of propositions (verbal statements) without referring to real-world circumstances. |
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| adolescents' belief that they are the focus of everyone else's attention and concern |
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| because adolescents are so sure that others are observing and thinking about them, they develop an inflated opinion of their own importance. they start to feel that they are special and unique. |
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