Dev Psych Ch 9 Vocab Flashcards
a period of rapid physical and sexual maturation that occurs mainly during early adolescence
Puberty
a girl’s first menstruation
Menarche
powerful chemical substances secreted by the endocrine glands and carried through the body by the bloodstream
Hormones
a structure in the higher portion of the brain that monitors eating and sex
Hypothalamus
an important endocrine gland that controls growth and regulates other glands, including the gonads
Pituitary Gland
the sex glands-the testes in males and the ovaries in females
Gonads
the location where fibers connect the brains left and right hemispheres
Corpus Callosum
region of the brain that is the seat of emotions
Amygdala
infections contracted primarily through sexual contact, including oral to genital and anal to genital contact
Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
an eating disorder that involves the relentless pursuit of thinness through starvation
Anorexia Nervosa
an eating disorder in which the individual consistently follows a binge and purge pattern
Bulimia Nervosa
Piaget’s formal operational concept that adolescents have the cognitive ability to develop hypothesis, or best guesses about ways to solve problems
Hypothetical-Deductive Reasoning
the heightened self-conciousness of adolescents
Adolescent Egocentrism
involves adolescents beliefs that others are as interested in them as they are of themselves are;attention-getting behavior motivated by a desire to be notices, and on “stage”
Imaginary Audience
the part of adolescents egocentrism that involves an adolescent’s sense of uniqueness and invincibility (or invulnerability)
Personal Fable
