HDF 100 Lecture Notes - Puberty, Dieting, Body Image
Document Summary
Adolescence: physical and cognitive chapter 11: puberty: stage of development characterized by reaching sexual maturity and the ability to reproduce. Puberty is a process that goes on for several years. During puberty, a body will grow faster than at any other time in your life, except for when you were a baby: asynchronous growth. Children who spurt earlier more likely to have longer torsos and shorter legs. No significant differences between early and late sprouters in the total height and maturity. Asynchronous growth: children who spurt earlier more likely to have longer torsos and shorter legs: hands and feet mature before the arms and legs do. Legs reach peak before shoulders and chest: boys stop growing out of pants about a year before they stop growing out of their jackets. Nutrition and medical advances contributed to height increase. While there"s no "right" time for puberty to begin, girls usually start earlier than boys .
