Flashcards in Chapter 11 Deck (17)
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puberty
a period of rapid physical maturation, occurring primarily in early adolescence, that involves hormonal and bodily changes
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menarche
a girl's first menstruation
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hormones
powerful chemical substances secreted by the endocrine glands and carried through the body by the bloodstream
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corpus callosum
the location where fibers connect the brain's left and right hemispheres
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limbic system
the parts of the brain where emotions and rewards are processed
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amygdala
the region of the brain that is the seat of emotions
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sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
infections that are contracted primarily though sexual contact, including oral-genital and anal-genital contact
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anorexia nervosa
an eating disorder that involves the relentless pursuit of thinness through starvation
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bulimia nervosa
an eating disorder in which the individual consistently follows a binge-and-purge pattern
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hypothetical-deductive reasoning
Piaget's formal operational concept that adolescents have the cognitive ability to develop hypotheses, or best guesses, about ways to solve problems
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adolescent egocentrism
the heightened self-consciousness of adolescents
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imaginary audience
adolescent's belief that others are as interested in them as they themselves are as well as attention-getting behavior motivated by a desire to be noticed, visible, and "on stage"
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personal fable
the part of adolescent egocentrism that involves and adolescent's sense of uniqueness and invincibility (or invulnerability)
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cognitive control
effective control of thinking in a number of areas, including controlling attention, reducing interfering thoughts, and being cognitively flexible
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dual-process model
a view of thinking in which decision making is influenced by two systems – one analytical and one experimental – that compete with each other
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top-dog phenomenon
the circumstance of moving from the top position in elementary school to the lowest position in middle or junior high school
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