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Prefrontal cortex development

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last to develop

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Causes of early puberty

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weight and hormones

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Impacts of early puberty for boys and girls

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Boys- aggressive and depressed

Girls- low-self esteem and depressed

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Sequence of puberty for girls

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Breast development, hair, menarche

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Sequence of puberty for boys

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Hair, testicular growth, spermicide

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Sexually transmitted infections

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Any infection transmitted through sex

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Primary sex characteristics

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Directly involved in pregnancy

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Secondary sex characteristics

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What’s considered masculine or feminine

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Androgens

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male hormones

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Menarche

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girl’s first period (12 years 4 months)

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Spermarche

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boys 1st ejaculation (12-13)

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Gonads

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Sex glands (ovaries and testes)

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Secular trend

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trend in human growth as nutrition improved

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hormones

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body chemicals that regulate sleep, hunger, stress. and sex desire

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precocious puberty

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puberty that starts before 8

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HPA axis

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hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal

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High stakes test

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test that has severe consequences if failed

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Invincibility fable

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death wont occur unless its destiny

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Middle school learning

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learning goes backward

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incremental theory of intelligence

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can get smarter with effort

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formal operational thought

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abstractions are now thoughts (math)

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Analytic thought

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formal, logical, hypothetical, deductive (Piaget)

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Sunk cost fallacy

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when time and money are wasted, continue even if dont like

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base rate neglect

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ignore info about frequency of phenomenon (jump to conclusions)

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personal fable
one is unique and destined to have a heroic life
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Inductive reasoning (bottom-up)
broad generalizations from specific experiences
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deductive reasoning (top-down)
abstract idea, logic, conclusions
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Entity approach to learning
fixed skill at birth
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Negative identity
pick identity opposite of parents
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Deviancy training
one shows another how to rebel against authority/social norms
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suicidal ideation
serious distressing thoughts about killing self
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Most common age
15
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parasuicide
attempted suicide
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family closeness
communication, support, connectedness, control
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Identity vs role confusion
lack of commitment to any goals
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Most commonly used drugs at this age
Psychoactive drugs
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Identity diffusion
doesn't know/care about identity
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vocational identity
envision self as a worker at a certain occupation
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facilitation
peer facilitation makes kids do things they wouldn't normally do by themselves
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constructive behaviors
"let's study for this exam"
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familism
family members should sacrifice freedom to care for each other
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identity foreclosure
adopt parents/societies roles without question
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Dunphy
sequence of male-female relationships
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Sequence of male-female relationships
1) group of boys 2)loose association 3) mixed sex groups 4) couples
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life course persistent offender
criminal activity continues throughout life
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adolescence limited offender
criminal activity stops at 21
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Rates of clinical depression in girls and boys
effects 1/5 girls and 1/10 boys
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Causes of clinical depression
genes and early care
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identity moratorium
socially acceptable way to postpone identity-achievement decisions (college)
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Marcia and the identity crisis
1) role confusion 2) foreclosure 3) moratorium 4) identity achievement
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bickering
repeated petty arguments
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who bickers the most?
daughters in early adolescence
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generational forgetting
new gen forgets what previous gen learned
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4 aspects of identity according to Erikson
religious, political, vocational, sexual
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rumination
mentally replaying past experiences

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