PSYC 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 44: Critical Thinking, Egocentrism, Personal Fable
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Youth beneit when they have caring adults in their lives in addiion to parents or guardians. Puberty: period of rapid physical maturaion, occuring primarily in early adolescence, that involves hormonal and bodily change. Hormones: chemicals secreted by the endocrine glands and carried throughout the body by the bloodstream. Average age of menarche has declined signiicantly since mid-19th century. Girls- between ages of 9 and 15 years. Preoccupaion with body image is strong throughout adolescence. Girls are less happy with their bodies and have more negaive body images. Early-maturing boys view themselves more posiively and have more successful peer. Late maturing boys report a stronger sense of idenity in their 30"s. Early-maturing girls show greater saisfacion early but less saisfacion later. Corpus callosum: the locaion where ibers connect the brain"s let and right hemispheres. Amygdala: the region of the brain that is the seat of emoions. The highest level of the frontal lobes involved in reasoning, decision making, and self-control.
