PSY 2301 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Secondary Sex Characteristic, Pubic Hair, Pituitary Gland
1 Dec 2017
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Chapter 11: the brain, two growth spurts, between ages 13 and 15. This growth spurt produces and consumes the most energy: prefrontal cortex of the frontal lobe also experiences growth spurts responsible for executive processing, info processing skills. Allow us to consciously control and organize our thought processes and social perception, involved in interpretation of nonverbal information like facial expression: around 17 and continues to early adulthood. It signals the adrenal gland for the production of androgen. This milestone is called adrenarche around ages 7/8: next the pituitary gland begins secreting hormones that stimulate the growth of ovaries and testes. Protein and fat: obesity is both a cause and consequence of development of secondary sex characteristics due to hormonal changes, boys, spermarche between 13-14. Viable sperm is not produced during the first ejaculation but after: more research needed for secular trends, timing of puberty is different for everyone even if it is usually highly consistent.
