Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12.2: Secondary Sex Characteristic, Erik Erikson, Basal Metabolic Rate

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

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Induced more hormones secretion and other glands: primary secondary characteristics, secondary sex characteristics: clothing, facial hair, mood swings and behaviour and physical change. In boys: first ejaculation and ejection of sperm, timing of puberty matters, early: fewer poor outcomes for boys than girls. For boy: higher chance of using drugs. For girls: bad body image because body change, sexual pressure: eating disorders, depression, anxiety. The adolescent brain: brain growth slows comparatively from childhood to adolescence, new neural connections but also losing synaptic connections from early growth, now more efficient, neural restructuring: limbic and prefrontal cortex, planning, coordinating behaviour, motivational goals, emotional urges. Early adulthood: hit peak: strength, sexual, perceptual function 25 to 30, vision hearing, reaction time, coordination mid 20s. Middle aged: tunnel vision since visual field shrinks, weaker muscles and stiffer, basal metabolic rate slows and harder to exercise, women stop estrogen production: menopause, men remain fertile but decreases.