Finals Flashcards
Adolescence limited offender
Someone who exhibits antisocial behavior primarily during their teenage years and then stops and they become adults.
Adolescent egocentrism
A cognitive distortion that causes teenagers to believe their thoughts, feelings, and experiences are unique and not understood by others.
Adrenal Gland
A pair of small triangular-shaped glands located on top of each kidney
Analytic thoughts
A cognitive process that involves breaking down complex problems into smaller, more manageable parts to identify patterns, assess relationships, and understand underlying principles.
Anorexia Nervosa
An eating disorder causing people to obsess about weight and what they eat.
Body image
A persons subjective picture or mental image of their own body
Bulimia Nervosa
A serious eating disorder marked by binging, followed by methods to avoid weight gain
Cluster Suicide
A group of suicides, suicide attempts, or self-harm events that occur closer together in time and space than would normally be expected in a given community.
Cohabitation
The state of living together and having a sexual relationship without being married
Cyberbullying
Anyone who sends any online communication to deliberately frighten, embarrass, harass or otherwise target another.
Deductive reasoning
A logical process that involves using general ideas or premises to reach a specific conclusion
Emerging adulthood
A period of development spanning from
About ages 18-29, experiences by most people in their twenties
Estradiol
A steroid sex hormone that’s naturally produced in the ovaries and is the most potent estrogen during a women’s reproductive years.
Foreclosure
A legal process that allows a lender to take ownership of a property and sell it to recover a debt owed by the borrower
Formal operational thought
The cognitive ability to think abstract ply, reason hypothetically, and logical outcomes