ch 11

Question 1

adolescence

Answer 1

the transition between childhood and adulthood

Question 2

puberty

Answer 2

flood of biological events leading to an adult size body and sexual maturity

Question 3

growth spurt

Answer 3

first outward sign of puberty is the rapid gain in height and weight

Question 4

primary sexual characteristics

Answer 4

involve reproductive organs

Question 5

secondary sexual characteristics

Answer 5

visible on outside of the body and serve as additional signs of sexual maturity

Question 6

menarche

Answer 6

first menstruation

Question 7

spermarche

Answer 7

first ejaculation

Question 8

secular trend

Answer 8

aka generational change , in last 100 years puberty hits earlier due to improved physical health, threats to emotional health can instigate puberty

Question 9

body image

Answer 9

conception and attitude toward physical image

Question 10

anorexia nervosa

Answer 10

people starve themselves because of compulsive fear of getting fat

Question 11

bulimia nervosa

Answer 11

strict dieting and excessive exercise accompanied by binge eating followed by deliberate vomiting, purging with laxitives

Question 12

formal operational stage

Answer 12

develop the capacity for abstract, systematic and scientific thinking

Question 13

hypothetico-deductive reasoning

Answer 13

when faced with problem, start hypothesis that leads to deducing logical, testable inferences, and systematically isolate and combine variables to see which of these variables to see which of these inferences are confirmed in the real world

Question 14

propositional thought

Answer 14

adolescents’ ability to evaluate logic of propositions/ verbal statements without referring to real world circumstances

Question 15

imaginary audience

Answer 15

adolescents belief that they are the focus of everyone else’s attention and concern

Question 16

personal fable

Answer 16

certain that others are observing and thinking about them, teenagers develop an inflate opinion of their own importance-a feeling that they are special and unique