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| When do early maturing girls start puberty? |
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-6th grade
-taller and more developed (maybe overweight)
-get teased,feels awkward, pressure to be in a sexual relationship |
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| When do late maturing girls start puberty? |
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-early adolescence
-more care free |
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| When do early maturing boys start puberty |
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-relaxed
-self-confident
-attractive |
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| when do late maturing boys start puberty? |
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-more anxious and attention seeking
-lower educational aspirations |
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-starve themselves, intense fear of getting fat
-14 to 18 years of age
-mainly girls
-distorted body image
-over exercising |
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-uncontrollable overeating followed by purging
-very secretive
-weight stays in normal age |
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-50% of teens have had intercourse by the time they graduate high school
-15% by age 15
-41% did not use a condom last time they had sex |
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| risk factors for early sexuality activity |
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-early maturers
-low income families
-poor students
-involved in delinquent behaviors
-parenting styles
-have friends who are sexually active |
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| consequences of sexual activity |
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-teen pregnancy
-sexually transmitted diseases |
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-for mother, lower education (only 50% complete high school)
-for baby, increased risk of birth complications, lower academic achievement, likely to be a teen parent themself |
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| sexually transmitted disease |
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| -incidence of aids growing fastest among 13 to 19 years old |
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-parents talk about sex with kids
-first hand accounts
-discussions with older teenagers
-role playing
-specifically showing the use of condoms |
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| reasoning it is its pinnacle: hypothetical, scientific, flexible, fully adult. Our full cognitive human potential has been reached. |
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| the formal operation phase reasons logically about |
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| formal operations systematically test a |
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hypothesis
-scientific method
-people in formal operations will come up with less noticeable hypothesis then concrete operations |
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| formal operation can reflect on others |
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thinking
-can use abstract logic
-adolescent=egocentrism |
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| focus on self- see own thoughts feelings and experiences as priority |
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see self as immune to dangers
-seem to think that bad things don't happen to them |
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| not everyone reaches formal operations |
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| some stay in concrete thinkers |
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| who are the worst drivers |
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| see self as destined for fame, fortune, and great accomplishments |
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| moral development-kohl-bergs theory |
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-preconventional level
-conventional level
-post conventional level |
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| believe that others are intensely interested in them (especially appearance and behaviors) |
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| emphasis on consequences (avoiding punishment and gaining rewards) |
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| emphasis on social appearance (approval of others important; rules must be uniformly applied) |
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| certain obligations and values transcend the rules or laws of society (emphasis on abstract moral principles) |
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- 10 year olds 80% level 1
- 22 year olds 90% level 2
- 24 year olds 10% level 3 |
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| relationships with parents |
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-less conflict than some believe
-have similar values
-fight about areas where peer influence is strongest
-most feel good about relationships with parents
-two tasks: autonomy, interdependence
-teens want to be independent but close to family |
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asked children how likely they would be to bend to peer or parental pressure in a variety of hypothetical situations
-conformity to adult pressure to engage prosocial decreased gradually with age |
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-increase in conformity to peers who urged antisocial behavior peaked in 9th grade
-decrease in conformity to peers urging antisocial behavior by end of high school |
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| eriksons adolescents stage of development |
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| identity vs. role confusion |
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| identity vs. role confusion |
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-teens try to understand 'who I am'
-they either establish career, political identities or are confused about what role to play |
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| James Marcia establishing an identity |
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classifies adolescents into identity statuses based on:
-whether they have explored alternatives
identity crises
-whether they have made firm commitments |
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| predictors of college happiness and success |
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-get involved in your college
-take classes that are relevant to your career
-take advantage of different types of experiences
-take advantage of service learning opportunities
-make connections with your professors and peers
-feeling like professors care
-get to know people who are different |
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| learning service opportunities |
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-promote social responsibility and service to community
-become less self-centered and more motivated to help others
-related to higher grades, increased goal settings, higher self esteem |
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most are young adults
-1/3 of these couples marry
-45% have been married before
as likely or more likely to divorce
-less committed to marriage
-less similar in age, race, and occupational level |
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(constantly in thoughts)
-preoccupied/ ambivalent
-avoidant/dismissive
-securely attached
related to childhood attachment |
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| fall in love quickly and deeply, engulfed and needy, are often rejected or feel unfulfilled |
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| withholding an aloof, reluctant to engage |
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| are committed, open to love, give partner space when needed |
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| what can be done to make divorce easier for childen |
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-makes few changes as possible in child's life
-receive emotional support from both parents
-parents maintain civil relations
-make sure child does not feel rejected or to blame
-financial support from non custodial parent
-counseling or support group participation |
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-authoritative
-authoritarian
-permissive
-rejecting/neglecting |
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| sets clear standards for their children but also provide some freedom and lots of love. |
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more flexible
family rules are negotiable, love child deeply, but seem flexible rigid and cold |
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provides total freedom and unconditional love
no bedtimes or homework demands |
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| rejecting-neglecting parents |
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| low on structure and on love, children are neglected and ignored |
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| confront terrible conditions such as parental abuse, poverty, and war go on to successful, loving lives |
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| any discipline technique using physical measures such as spanking |
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| the term for acts that endanger children's physical or emotional well-being |
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| bodily injury that leaves bruises |
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| caregiver's failure to provide adequate supervision and care |
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| refers to continual shaming or terrorizing or exploiting a child |
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| rape and incest to fondling and exhibitionist acts |
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| musical,linguistic, spatial, logical mathematics, bodily kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrpersonal, naturalist |
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