Chapter 11 Flashcards
puberty
a period of rapid physical maturation, occurring primarily in early adolescence, that involves hormonal and bodily changes
menarche
a girl’s first menstruation
hormones
powerful chemical substances secreted by the endocrine glands and carried through the body by the bloodstream
corpus callosum
the location where fibers connect the brain’s left and right hemispheres
limbic system
the parts of the brain where emotions and rewards are processed
amygdala
the region of the brain that is the seat of emotions
sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
infections that are contracted primarily though sexual contact, including oral-genital and anal-genital contact
anorexia nervosa
an eating disorder that involves the relentless pursuit of thinness through starvation
bulimia nervosa
an eating disorder in which the individual consistently follows a binge-and-purge pattern
hypothetical-deductive reasoning
Piaget’s formal operational concept that adolescents have the cognitive ability to develop hypotheses, or best guesses, about ways to solve problems
adolescent egocentrism
the heightened self-consciousness of adolescents
imaginary audience
adolescent’s belief that others are as interested in them as they themselves are as well as attention-getting behavior motivated by a desire to be noticed, visible, and “on stage”
personal fable
the part of adolescent egocentrism that involves and adolescent’s sense of uniqueness and invincibility (or invulnerability)
cognitive control
effective control of thinking in a number of areas, including controlling attention, reducing interfering thoughts, and being cognitively flexible
dual-process model
a view of thinking in which decision making is influenced by two systems – one analytical and one experimental – that compete with each other
