PSYCH 250 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Pubic Hair, Body Image, Family Therapy
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Hormones chemicals secreted by the endocrine glands & carried throughout the body by the bloodstream. Increased risk of eating disorders & steroid abuse. Improved logical reasoning realization that adults are unjust & the world is imperfect: protracted frontal lobe development helps manage improved understanding of the world, new connections, use-it-or-lose-it pruning. Risky driving one of the leading causes of deaths of adolescents aged 15-24 years old. In 50% of motor vehicle fatalities involving adolescents, the driver has a blood alcohol level of 0. 10 (more than double legal limit) Information processing challenges piaget: executive function ability to manage one"s thoughts to engage in goal-directed behavior & exercise self-control; increased cognitive control. Increased decision making adult-like when calm, risky when emotionally aroused, highly susceptible to peer influences. Egocentrism adolescents become aware of others" flaws & then become obsessed with what others think about their own flaws think their own actions are the center of everyone else"s thoughts.
