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Pubesence
2 yr span preceding puberty during which the changes leading to physical and sexual maturity take place. TERM 2
Secondary Sex
characteristic
DEFINITION 2 Physical features that distinguish one gender from the other but that are essential for reproduction. TERM 3
Puberty
DEFINITION 3 MArks the beggining of adolence stage and during which which sexual functions reach maturity. TERM 4
Primary Sex
characteristics
DEFINITION 4 stuctures of reproduction TERM 5
Menarche
DEFINITION 5 menstra
Spermarche
The first ejaculatory experience of boys is termed spermarche. TERM 7
Cognitive changes
DEFINITION 7 -changes happen in thinking and solving problems. they become more self aware and self reflective and can view several problems from several perspectives rather than just one. *Declaritive knowledge- know more facts *Procedural Knowledge- have more skills *Conceptual Knowledge-have a beeter understandin g that a certian type of problem solving approach works better than the other. TERM 8
PseudoStupidity
DEFINITION 8 Overanalyzing, making things moe complicted than it should be. TERM 9
Psychosocial crisis
DEFINITION 9 involving transitions into important social relationships TERM 10
Identity
DEFINITION 10 clear and stable sense of who one is in the larger society see fig 11.3 p 341
G. Stanley Hall
Parent-adolenscence conflicts-increase during early adolescence. They experience more volatile emotions and extremes of mood. Risky Behaviors- deliguient and anti- social behavior, alcohol and substance abuse, careless sexual practices, and school failure. TERM 17
Numbers for Suicide
DEFINITION 17 359-2366 CAPS 838-4428 Spokane mentl health Testable Fig 11.5 p 344 Preventing suicide. TERM 18
Adolescent Suicide
DEFINITION 18 Parasuicide- self destructive behavior that is not fatal nor entirely intentional.( jumping,pills) Attempted--woman usually do this, using pills and don't harm physical appearance. Men choose the fatal method. Completed-- TERM 19
Sucidal Ideation
DEFINITION 19 -thinking about commiting suicide- common amounst high school students. TERM 20
Social
Clock
DEFINITION 20 -person's notion of a developmental schedule that specifies what he or she have accomplished by certain points in life. - exert considerable influence over decisions concerning education, carreer moves, marriage, parenting, and other life choices.
Jacob Orlofsky
-intimate- capable of forming close relationships - preinitmate-capable but ambivuilent -streotyped- have commited realtionship, but not close -Pseudointimate- resembles sterotyped -Isolate-aviod social situations and appear to be loners TERM 22
Eric Erickson: Intamacy vs. Isolation
DEFINITION 22 ability to share intamacy with others, concerened if whether people can open up to others, and truly commit. TERM 23
Eric Erickson: Generativity vs. Stagnation
DEFINITION 23 middle adulthood concern for the welfare of the future generations. desire to give back Adults show generativity,, when they provide unselfish guidence to younger people TERM 24
Mid-life crisis
DEFINITION 24 a turbulent period of doubts and repraisal of one's life. TERM 25
Daniel Levinson and Rodger gould
DEFINITION 25 mid life crisis is a normal event, no universal proof of this. they both
Working memory
short term , limitied capacity memory store that people use to juggle info they are currently focusig on TERM 32
Death system
DEFINITION 32 the collection of rituals aND PROCEDURES USED BY CULTURE TO HANDLE DEATH TERM 33
Death Anxiety
DEFINITION 33 fear and apprehension about ones own death TERM 34
Process of dying: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
DEFINITION 34
- denial- maintain stance to the end 2.Anger-why me 3.Bargaining- favor to postpone death 4.Depression- preparatory grief, sadness of antisipating an impending death 5.Acceptance-taken care of unfinished business TERM 35
Bereavement
DEFINITION 35 painful loss of a loved one through death
Mourning
formal practices of an individual and a comminity in response to a death. TERM 37
John Bowlby: grieving process
DEFINITION 37 Stage 1- Numbness- dazed and confused, experience physical reactions such as nausea. Stage 2- Yearning-recover the lost person,, feel frustration and anger. Stage 3- Disorganization and dispear-it all ceases when the loved one accepts it as real. Stage 4-Reorganization-resume thier normal routine at home and at work. TERM 38
Grief Reaction
DEFINITION 38 Absent grief or the resilant pattern- low levels of depression before and after a spounces death Chronic Grief- depression exixts before and after the death. Common grief- increase in depression shortly after a person's death and decrese over time..\ Depressed improved- reflects a decrease in depression afrer a spouces death. Chronic depression- describes those who are depressed before and after a spouces death TERM 39
Bereavement Overload
DEFINITION 39 Occurs when individuals experience several deaths at the same time or in close succession. TERM 40
Diana Baumrind
DEFINITION 40 Looked at specific parenting styles as interactions between the two dimensions of acceptance and control. 1. Authoritative- high acceptance/HIgh control 2. Authoritarian- Low acceptance/ HIgh control npt effective parenting 3. Permissive- HIgn acceptance/ Low control 4. Neglectful-Low acceptance/Low control
