PSY310H5 Lecture 2: Lecture 2
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Puberty: differences and variations in puberty and its psychosocial impacts, excerpts from the experiences of adolescents experiencing the biological transitions during puberty period, ejaculation, pubic hair, etc, no new systems develop, no new hormones during puberty. Second, they bring about specific patterns of behaviors that don"t emerge until adolescence: hormones also play an activating role, example development of secondary sexual characters, somatic development in puberty. There are diff in how much muscle and how much fat is increase between boys and girls. Muscle tissue in boys grows rapidly and they also put on more muscle because of androgen levels, testosterone is higher in boys than girls. Girls tend to experience more in body fat, especially a year or two prior to the onset of puberty. Vital capacity of lungs increases in both- the amount of air exhaled after taking in air.
