E PSY 224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Secondary Sex Characteristic, Imaginary Audience, Sleep Deprivation

• School: SUNY Albany
• Department: Educational Psychology & Methodology
• Course: E PSY 224
• Professor: Ms. Shaw

Document Summary

Adolescence: the developmental stage that lies between childhood and adulthood. Puberty: the period during which the sexual organs mature. Secular trend: a pattern of change occurring over several generations. Primary sex characteristics: characteristics associated with the development of the organs and structures of the body that directly relate to reproduction. Secondary sex characteristics: the visible signs of sexual maturity that do not directly involve the sex organs. Anorexia nervosa: a severe eating disorder in which individuals refuse to eat, while denying that their behavior and appearance, which may become skeletal, are out of the ordinary. Bulimia: an eating disorder characterized by binges on large quantities of food, followed by purges of the food through vomiting or the use of laxatives. Sleep deprivation: adolescents go to bed later and get up earlier. Formal operational stage: the stage at which people develop the ability to think abstractly.