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adolescence
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the gland that is responds to a signal from the hypothalamus by producing many growth and sex hormones? | Pituitary gland |
| What are the two glands that produce the stress hormones? | Adrenal glands |
| The HPA axis stands for? | Hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis: a route followed by many kinds of hormones that trigger the changes of puberty and regulate stress, growth, sleep, appetite, and sexual excitement. |
| Males produce more estradiol (chief sex hormone)than females. True of False. | False- females produce more which effects the size and shape of one's body. |
| What is a secular trend? | It refers to the earlier and greater growth of children due to improved nutrition over the last 20 years. |
| What is a primary sex characteristic? | the parts of the body that are directly involved in reproduction. Including the vagina, uterus, ovaries, testes, and penis. |
| What is a secondary sex characteristic? | the physical traits that are not directly involved in reproduction - but indicate sexual maturity. (ex:man's beard and growing taller& womans breasts and wider hips) |
| What is the idea called when a new generation forgets what the previous generation learned about harmful drugs? | Generation forgetting |
| What aspects of puberty are under direct hormonal control? | Dozens of hormones affect hunger, sleep, moods, stress, sexual desires...At least 23 hormones regulate growth and maturation. |
| What psychological responses result from the physical changes of puberty? | Sudden mood changes, rapid arousal of emotions, romantic passions, and sudden anger. |
| Nature and nurture combined enable young people to become parents. True or False? | False: Sexual activity is influenced by culture and physiology. |
| What similarities occur between males and females during puberty? | Growth spurts, muscle growth, and secondary sex characteristics and maturation of parts of their brains. |
| What are 3 reasons for nutritional deficiencies in adolescence? | Poor diet decisions, distorted self perceptions, and depression. |
| Why is one's body image likely to be distorted in adolescence? | Because of egocentrisim, influence of media, and negative input from peers. |
| What is adolescent egocentrism? | adolescent thinkings' that lead young people to to focus on themselves and not others. |
| The idea that a teenager cannot be overcome or harmed by anything such as: unprotected sex, drug abuse, of highspeed driving are examples of what..? | The Invincibility fable |
| What is imaginary audience? | An adolescents belief that other people are always watching and taking notes on his/or her behaviors. Which makes teenagers very self conscious. |
| In Piaget's theory towards adolescence the idea of formal operation thought means? | That their thinking is no longer limited by personal experiences: they now can consider more logical and abstract thoughts/ ideals . |
| What is a dual process model? | The notion that two networks exist within the brain- one for emotional and one for analytical processing of stimuli. |
| An thought that arises from an emotion of hunch is considered a _______ thought. | Intuitive. |
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