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Growing and Changing
Personal Development
Term | Definition |
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Adolescence | This is a stage between childhood and adulthood. |
Developmental tasks | Skills and behavior patterns are achieved during the various stages of life. |
Physical changes | Your body grows and matures. |
Intellectual changes | You learn more about the world around you. You develop the ability to reason and solve problems. |
Emotional changes | You develop feelings about situations and you learn to express those feeling appropriately. |
Social changes | You meet more people and learn how to get along with others. |
Growth spurts | This is rapids periods of physical growth. |
Puberty | This is a time when your body begins to take on the characteristics of an adult. |
Hormones | These are chemicals produced in the body that influence how you grow and develop. |
Emotions | Your feelings about people and events in your life. |
Positive emotions | love, happiness, affection |
Negative emotions | anger, jealously, fear |
Role | This is pattern of expected behavior you exhibit as you are in individual situations. |
Stages | Childhood, adolescence and adulthood |