PSYCH 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Puberty, Peer Pressure, Gender Role
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Lecture outline lecture 12: physical and cognitive. Five developmental tasks of adolescence: accept full-grown body and changes of puberty, acquire adult ways of thinking, develop more mature ways of relating to peers of both sexes, consolidate an identity, attain greater independence from the family. Physical changes of puberty general nature: defining puberty the set of biological processes that change the immature child into a sexually mature person, not a single event. Part of a gradual process: timing girls: 10-15 boys: 11. 5-17. Improved health care and diets contribute to that: growth patterns. Youth progress through events at different rates, all generally following the same sequence. Controlled by increases in growth hormones and thyroxin. First outward sign of puberty is growth spurt large increases in size, strength, weight (50- Girls start growth spurt earlier, often around age 10. Boys start growth spurt later, around age 12. 5, and grow for a longer period of time.
