Test 5 Flashcards
Prefrontal cortex development
last to develop
Causes of early puberty
weight and hormones
Impacts of early puberty for boys and girls
Boys- aggressive and depressed
Girls- low-self esteem and depressed
Sequence of puberty for girls
Breast development, hair, menarche
Sequence of puberty for boys
Hair, testicular growth, spermicide
Sexually transmitted infections
Any infection transmitted through sex
Primary sex characteristics
Directly involved in pregnancy
Secondary sex characteristics
What’s considered masculine or feminine
Androgens
male hormones
Menarche
girl’s first period (12 years 4 months)
Spermarche
boys 1st ejaculation (12-13)
Gonads
Sex glands (ovaries and testes)
Secular trend
trend in human growth as nutrition improved
hormones
body chemicals that regulate sleep, hunger, stress. and sex desire
precocious puberty
puberty that starts before 8
HPA axis
hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal
High stakes test
test that has severe consequences if failed
Invincibility fable
death wont occur unless its destiny
Middle school learning
learning goes backward
incremental theory of intelligence
can get smarter with effort
formal operational thought
abstractions are now thoughts (math)
Analytic thought
formal, logical, hypothetical, deductive (Piaget)