Human Growth and Development
Lecture 12 - Physical & Cognitive - Adolescence
3/14/06
- The Nature of Adolescence
- Storm & Stress?
- Start & End?
- Industrial Revolution
- Puberty
- Physical maturation
- Menarche
- Spermarche
- Hormones
- Body Image
- Early and late bloomers
- Sexuality
- Sexual orientation
- Sexual behaviors
- "Necking"
- "Petting"
- Intercourse
- Contraception/Pregnancy
- Why not use it?
- Teen moms
- Health
- Health Care
- Drug/alcohol use
- Eating disorders
- Cognition
- Egocentrism
- Information Processing
- Piaget - formal operational thought
- Greater knowledge
- Faster information processing
- School
- Transition to middle or junior high
- What makes a "good" high-school?
- Legal rights in schools
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Last updated: 3/13/06