PSYC 302 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Pubic Hair, Personal Fable, Myelin
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Socioemotional: changes in relationships, emotions, personality, and social contexts. Girls: growth spurt, menarche, breast stage, pubic hair stage. Hypothalamus: monitors eating, drinking, sex, in higher portion of brain. Pituitary gland: controls growth, regulates glands, secretes fsh and lh. Thyroid gland: interacts with pituitary gland to influence growth. Growth spurt and puberty begin 2 years earlier in girls (11. 5) boys (13. 5) Girls gain hip width, boys gain shoulder width. Can be applied to an entire population: know the difference between correlation and causation. Correlational: relationship between variables, time sequencing (one variable can happen at the same time, not sure when variables happen), less ability to control, cross-sectional and longitudinal. Schemes: assimilation (when new information is altered to fit existing scheme), accommodation (entails changing scheme to adapt to new information) Maturation: active process, seeking out new information and stimulation in environment that matches maturity of their thinking.
