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lifespan.11
lifespan.11.physical.cognitive.adolescence
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| adolescence -372 | developmental stage between childhood & adulthood |
| adolescence 372 | starts jus before teenage year & end just after them |
| awa tribe p372 | symbolically celebrating the onset of the physical changes that turn a child's body into adult |
| adolescence growth spurt p 372 | boy 4.1 inc/year - girls 3.5 inches/year |
| begin grow spurt p372 | girls 10 - boys 12 |
| puberty p372 | period in which the sexual organs mature |
| androgens p373 | male hormones |
| estrogens p373 | female hormones |
| do males produce female hormones? | yes p373 |
| menarche p373 | age of onset earlier=wealth |
| fat/leptin in age of menarch p374 | (blank) |
| secular p.374 | pattern of change occuring over several generations |
| primary sex characteristics p375 | sex organs |
| secondary sex characteristics p375 | visible signs of sexual maturity - beard |
| spermache age 13 p375 | (blank) |
| menarch psychological p375 | (blank) |
| early maturation p375 | boys-good girls - bad |
| early maturation germany p375 | (blank) |
| late maturation p375 | boys-bad girls-OK |
| anorexia nervosap378 | (blank) |
| calorie intake p378 | calcium & iron needed-girls |
| iron-deficiency anemia p378 | (blank) |
| obesity p378 | what chance become adults? (can't see) |
| anorexia p379 | 15-20% starve themselvies to death-white affluent |
| anorexia - boys p 379 | (blank) |
| bulimia p379 | binging & purging-laxatives |
| anorexia -psychological p380 | perfectionism, overdemanding parents-US |
| anorexia - not in ASia | except Japan & HOng kong |
| neurons p380 | (blank) |
| prefrontal cortex 380 | impulse control - biologically immature in adolescence |
| gray matter - oversupply p381 | pruned back 1-2% per year |
| prefrontal cortex p381 | think-evaluate-impulse control |
| dopamine p381 | more sensitive to stress- |
| p382-teens & death penalty | (blank) |
| sleep deprivation | need 9 hrs., up later sleep later |
| p383 Piaget | ex pendulum - what determines speed of pendulum (length of string) |
| p384 formal operational stage | people develop ability to think abstractly |
| formal operational stage | around age 12 |
| systematic reasoning p 384 | general theory about what produces particular outcome, then explanations for specific situations |
| propositional thought p385 | abstract logic in the absence of concrete examples |
| formal operational full p385 | age 15-or later (research) |
| p386 abstract reasoning ability | leads to arguments |
| Piaget - problems with theories p386 | piaget is good at describing (not explaining) - his stages are too late - cognitive abilities are different in different cultures |
| Other theories p386 LABOUVIE-VIEF, Giesala | postformal thinking |
| information processing perspectives | model that seekes to identify the way that individuals take in, use, and store information |
| metacognition p387 | knowledge that people have about their own thinking processes, their ability to monitor their cognition |
| general intelligence IQ stable, but improves | memory capacity |
| memory capacityp387 | know how much time they need to study |
| adolescent egocentrismp388 | state of self-absorption in which world is viewed from one's own point of view |
| imaginary audience | adolescents-his behavior is focus of others' attentions and concerns |
| surfistas - brazil p388 | (blank) |
| personal fables p389 | what happens is uique, exceptional and shared by no one else |
| grade inflation p390 | (blank) |
| US compared to other countries p390 | math poor |
| high school graduation p391 | US 24th in world - only 78% graduate |
| p391 reason for gap | (blank) |
| p391 socioeconomic status | relationship with educational achievement |
| p391 poor children lag behind | school success builds on earlier achievement |
| p391- achievement levels -Af. am & hispanic | (blank) |
| p392 OGBU, John - | forced immigrants vs. willing immigranst |
| p391 Af. Am beliefs | believe they can succeed despite poor grades |
| cyberspace p392 | learn to sort through huge bodies of information to identify what is most useful and discard what is not |
| p393 online activity - chart | (blank) |
| p393 digital divide | 77% of black students use computer vs. 87% white |
| p393 school drop out | earn 42% less - males more - |
| p393 poverty | (blank) |
| p394 drugs at age 12 | "garbage head"-died at 16 |
| p395 addictive drugs | drugs that produce a giological or psychological dependence in users, leading to powerful cravings |
| p395 | (blank) |
| p. 395 marijuana | 50$ of high school seniors have uses |
| p395 maslow | 1) physiological needs, then safety & security needs - love & belongingness |
| p396 marijuana use going down since 1999 | (blank) |
| p397 biological addiction- | body needs; cannot function in their absence |
| p.397 drugs escalate use | (blank) |
| p397 alcohol - statistics on use | (blank) |
| p397 binge drinking | 5 or more drinks (male) 4 or more (female) |
| p397 false consensus effects | "everyone is doing it" |
| p. 397 alcoholics | alcohol problems, learned to depend on alcohol & are unable to control their drinking |
| p. 398 list of signs - drug or alchohol | (blank) |
| p 398 - National Institutue Drug Abuse | (blank) |
| p 399 smoking | on rise among girls - Austria, Norway & Sweden - girls higher |
| p399 "uptown" cigarettes | American smokes to teens worldwide |
| p 400 smoke 10 cigarettes early in life | 80% chance of becoming a smoker |
| p400 sexually transmitted infections | (blank) |
| p400 AIDS | krista blake died |
| p400 sexually transmitted infections (STI) | an infection that is spred through sexual contact |
| p 401 Human Papilloma virus (HPV) | transmitted through genital contact-cause cervical cancer |
| p. trichomonisasis - chlamydia | antibiotics ch-can lead to sterility |
| p 401 - chart - STI'sp 402 - | use condoms!! |