Exam 3 Chapter 9 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 brain’s left and right hemispheres
corpus callosum
the region of the brain that is the seat of emotions
amygdala
Infections contracted primarily through sexual contact, including oral-genital and anal-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 hypotheses, or best guesses, about ways to solve problems
hypothetical-deductive reasoning
the heightened self-consciousness of adolescents
adolescent egocentrism
involves adolescents’ belief that others are as interested in them as they themselves are; attention-getting behavior motivated by a desire to be noticed, visible, and “on stage”
imaginary audience
the part of adolescent egocentrism that involves an adolescent’s sense of uniqueness and invincibility
personal fable
