CFD 1450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Margaret Mead, Pubic Hair, Thyroid
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519 521: adolescence begins with puberty, the flood of biological events leading to an adult, the biological perspective (pp. 519 520) size body and sexual maturity: early theorists viewed adolescence as a time of storm and stress resulting from, anna freud viewed the teenage years as a biologically based, universal biological upheaval. 521 529: girls reach puberty, on average, two years earlier than boys, hormonal changes (pp. 526 527: heredity contributes substantially to the timing of pubertal changes; nutrition and exercise also make a difference, variations in pubertal growth exist among the regions of the world and between. 536 537: the rate of unintentional injuries increases during adolescence, due to risk taking and a tendency to act without forethought, automobile accidents, the leading killer of u. s. teenagers, account for more than. 549 551: among u. s. high school students, 26 percent of tenth graders have tried smoking,
