Developmental Psych.

Chapter Eleven:
Puberty—a period of rapid physical maturation involving hormonal and bodily changes that occurs primarily during early adolescence.

Menarche: is a girl’s first menstruation, comes late in the pubertal cycle.

Variations in Puberty: Nutrition, health, and other environmental factors affect puberty’s timing and makeup. Boys may begin as early as 10 or late as 13 or end as early as 13 or late as 17. For girls menarche is considered within the normal range in the ages of 9 and 15.  

Precocious Puberty: puberty starting before 8 in girls and before 9 in boys. Treated by suppressing gonadtropic secretions.

Early & Late Maturation Effects: early-maturing boys perceive themselves more positively and had successful peer relations. Late-maturing boys in their late thirties have a better sense of identity. Early-maturing girls are more likely to smoke, drink, be depressed, have an eating disorder, struggle for independence from their parents, and have older friends. Their bodies’ elicit attention for males which leads to early promiscuity. Early-maturing girls are less likely to graduate from high school and marry early.

Brain Development: Adolescence has fewer more, selective, more effective neuronal connections than they did as children. The corpus callosum, where fibers connect the brain’s left and right hemispheres, thickens and improves adolescence ability to process information. The amygdale—the seat of emotions such as anger matures.

Teen Pregnancy: Infants born to young mothers are most likely to have low birth weights

Substance Use & Abuse: smoking is likely to begin in grades 7 through 9.

Eating Disorder:
Anorexia Nervosa: eating disorder that involves the pursuit of thinness through starvation.   Weight is less than 85 percent of average weight for age. An intense fear of gaining weight that does not decrease with weight loss, and a distorted image of their body.
Bulimia Nervosa: the individual consistently...

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Developmental

Assimilation and Accommodation
Jean Piaget viewed intellectual growth as a process of adaptation (adjustment) to the world. This happens through:
* Assimilation?– Which is using an existing schema to deal with a new object or situation. ?
* Accommodation?– This happens when the existing schema (knowledge) does not work, and needs to be changed to deal with a new object or situation. ?

Erickson psychosocial   stages

Stage | Basic Conflict | Important Events | Outcome |
Infancy (birth to 18 months) | Trust vs. Mistrust | Feeding | Children develop a sense of trust when caregivers provide reliabilty, care, and affection. A lack of this will lead to mistrust. |
Early Childhood (2 to 3 years) | Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt | Toilet Training | Children need to develop a sense of personal control over physical skills and a sense of independence. Success leads to feelings of autonomy, failure results in feelings of shame and doubt. |
Preschool (3 to 5 years) | Initiative vs. Guilt | Exploration | Children need to begin asserting control and power over the environment. Success in this stage leads to a sense of purpose. Children who try to exert too much power experience disapproval, resulting in a sense of guilt. |
School Age (6 to 11 years) | Industry vs. Inferiority | School | Children need to cope with new social and academic demands. Success leads to a sense of competence, while failure results in feelings of inferiority. |
Adolescence (12 to 18 years) | Identity vs. Role Confusion | Social Relationships | Teens need to develop a sense of self and personal identity. Success leads to an ability to stay true to yourself, while failure leads to role confusion and a weak sense of self. |
Young Adulthood (19 to 40 years) | Intimacy vs. Isolation | Relationships | Young adults need to form intimate, loving relationships with other people. Success leads to strong relationships, while failure results in loneliness and isolation. |
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