PSY210H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Binge Eating, Eating Disorder, Menarche
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Age of child is important because certain tasks at certain ages are appropriate and not. They are more moody than adults and children. If you monitor mood for a while, you see that it changes depending on environment there in. With peers, or doing social activities they have high mood and during parent direct activities, school activates they have low mood. 3) frontal lobes haven"t developed yet that happens in late 20s. Limbic system is fully developed so they have full pleasure system without consequence actions. This is where the risk taking behavior stems from this. Most deaths from teens is accidents and that"s because they take risks. Canadians) believe that crime in youth is increasing. We do have a belief that adolescents are criminals. We see this in both male and female development. Fsh stays the same in males but fluctuates in females based on their menstrual cycle.
